In October 2007, Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS) & the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) filed a lawsuit against Alstom and Veolia in France. The plaintiffs allege that the companies’ involvement in a consortium which contracted with the Israeli Government in July 2005 to construct and operate a light rail project in Jerusalem violates international law…In May 2011, the Nanterre Tribunal ruled on the merits and rejected the plaintiffs’ arguments to cancel the contract…The Appeal Court’s decision of 22 March 2013…ruled the suit as inadmissible. The court found that the international agreements in question create obligations between states, and could not be used to hold two private companies liable…