Jack Hoover

Jack Hoover is a law clerk and graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law. He managed humanitarian responses in conflict zones at USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and holds an M.Phil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford.

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JASTA

For Better or Worse, the Supreme Court Rewrote JASTA

Jack Hoover Thu, May 25, 2023, 8:31 AM

Twitter v. Taamneh alters the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act’s vague aiding and abetting standard but provides limited clarity.

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U.S. Supreme Court

Congress Should Repeal and Replace JASTA

Jack Hoover Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 8:16 AM

This term, the Supreme Court is set to review the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act for the first time. Six years of litigation, increasingly targeting U.S. companies, has revealed that the statute is poorly tailored.

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