The justices upheld a law passed by Congress that permits legal actions to proceed against the PLO and the Palestinian Authority.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Friday a statute passed by Congress to facilitate lawsuits against Palestinian authorities by Americans killed or injured in attacks abroad as plaintiffs pursue monetary damages for violence years ago in Israel and the West Bank.

The victims had sued under the Anti-Terrorism Act, signed into law in 1992. The law was passed to open U.S. courts to victims of international terrorism, spurred by the killing of American Leon Klinghoffer during a 1985 terrorist attack aboard the Achille Lauro cruise ship.

The conservative Supreme Court dealt a significant blow to transgender Americans on Wednesday, issuing a sweeping decision that may have implications beyond the medical care that was at center of one of the court’s highest-profile disputes this year.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming surgery for transgender youth in a ruling that’s likely to reverberate across the country. Most Republican-controlled states already have similar bans. Since President Donald Trump returned to office this year, the federal government has been trying to restrict access.

The Supreme Court’s Skrmetti ruling spotlighted a split, of sorts, within the court’s Democratic-appointed minority: Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.