(September 29, 2016 at 11:51 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(September 29, 2016 at 11:43 am)InquiringMind Wrote: And here's my question. If damages are awarded from these lawsuits, who is going to force Saudi Arabia to pay the damages? How will the lawsuits be enforced? What's going to stop the Saudis from saying, "Go fuck yourselves, 9/11 victims. We weren't responsible for that act of terrorism and we're not paying for it."
The courts can order assets to be seized.
But this will only work as much as the Saudis agree to let it work. If a US court orders assets to be seized, and the Saudis say, "No, those assets are ours, and you can't have them," then what is the court going to do? It really seems like this will only be effective as far as the Saudis are willing to go along with it.
