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Anderson Kill is counsel to lead plaintiff Christine O’Neill, the widow of former FBI counterterrorism chief John P. O’Neill, and thousands of co-plaintiffs in In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001. That suit consolidates litigation originating in 2002, 2003, and 2004 by families of 9/11 victims seeking justice and restitution from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and multiple other parties, including individuals, institutions, and nation-states, that provided material support to al Qaeda.
Anderson Kill’s involvement in the litigation began in May 2008 when litigator Jerry S. Goldman, counsel since 2004 to the O’Neill family, joined the firm. Mr. Goldman is a member of the multi-district litigation’s Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee. Bruce Strong, a shareholder in Anderson Kill’s New York and Philadelphia offices, is also a member of the litigation team along with former New York State Supreme Court Justice Ethan Greenberg; trial attorney and chair of Anderson Kill’s White Collar Defense Group, Samuel Braverman; Trust & Estates shareholder Gabrielle Lese; and Alexander Greene, an associate in Anderson Kill’s New York
Mr. Goldman and co-counsel have pursued justice for the 9/11 families through a 20+ year litigation odyssey with many twists and turns, all the while pursuing access to long-withheld information that has confirmed likely foreign government support of the hijackers.
Prior to September 2016, U.S. district and appeals courts opined several times on whether sovereign immunity protected Saudi Arabia from accountability for the attacks. In September 2016, Congress enacted the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act and following that, in March 2018, the District Court permitted our case against Saudi Arabia to proceed into jurisdictional discovery.
Following years of discovery, plaintiffs obtained explosive evidence from their own independent investigation of the September 11, 2001 attacks apart from Saudi Arabia’s meager, and self-serving, discovery responses. Specifically, plaintiffs secured document productions from the FBI and other government agencies following President Biden’s Executive Order authorizing their release, and from the Metropolitan Police Service in the United Kingdom. Plaintiffs then painstakingly pieced together the evidence from these different sources and presented the evidence to the District Court in July 2024. In August 2025, over 21 years after Mr. Goldman filed the first personal injury and death lawsuit against Saudi Arabia, the District Court found that the evidence was compelling and ordered Saudi Arabia to stand trial in New York City courthouse for its documented involvement in 9/11.
Another milestone was obtaining judgments on behalf of over 3,000 claimants against the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran), resulting in award compensation from the United States Victim of State Sponsored Terrorism (VSST) Fund.
Another milestone was suing the Republic of the Sudan (Sudan) and marshalling evidence demonstrating that Sudan materially supported al Qaeda in the years leading up to the attacks. In August 2023, the District Court found that Sudan must stand trial for its support of al Qaeda, denying its attempt to claim sovereign immunity, and in September 2024, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second Circuit confirmed that the case against Sudan should proceed to trial.
Another ongoing effort is Anderson Kill’s attempt to secure billions of dollars in Taliban assets for the 9/11 community. When the Taliban unexpectedly overthrew the Afghani government in August 2021, it took over Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the central bank of Afghanistan, along with several billion dollars of assets. Anderson Kill moved quickly to add over 3,000 plaintiffs into suit against the Taliban, moved for damages judgments against the Taliban, and brokered a deal with co-counsel to secure the assets for the 9/11 community. Our attempts to secure the assets for the 9/11 community remains.
The Anderson Kill team communicates with the families on a daily basis and has, with co-counsel, conducted hundreds of hours of depositions, successfully fought over the release of thousands of pages of concealed evidence, and litigated challenging legal matters in United States District Courts in Washington, D.C., New York, and Chicago and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, D.C. and Seventh Circuits, as well as presented and defended four petitions for certiorari before the United States Supreme Court. In conjunction with the case, Anderson Kill also filed amici before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.
As a member of the plaintiffs’ team, Anderson Kill has been involved in the passage of six pieces of federal legislation, one over a presidential veto, and has engaged with the Executive Branch over several different administrations.
“I speak to the widows and the children, the parents and the siblings. I know their pain, and I make sure their rights are going to be vindicated”.
Jerry S. Goldman
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