Supreme Court liberals side with Clarence Thomas on Taliban suicide bomber lawsuit, 3 others dissent

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a lawsuit brought by a U.S. Army veteran injured in a Taliban suicide bombing to proceed, vacating a lower court ruling that had dismissed it.

Winston Tyler Hencely, a former U.S. Army specialist, suffered a fractured skull and brain injuries when a Taliban operative working for the military contractor Fluor Corporation blew up a suicide vest at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan in 2016.

The U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina made a summary judgment for Fluor, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed, the opinion notes...