Rachel Corrie was killed in 2003 when she was run over by an Israeli armored bulldozer while trying to protect a Palestinian doctor's home from demolition. Corrie's family filed a lawsuit against...Caterpillar, the manufacturer of the armored bulldozer, in 2005...four Palestinian families...also joined the lawsuit. The case alleges that Caterpillar sold the D9 bulldozers to Israel even though the company knew they would be used to unlawfully demolish homes and endanger civilians in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza. The case was dismissed in November 2005 by a judge in the Western District, and the current appeal will determine if it can move forward...But lawyers for Caterpillar and the U.S. Justice Department...argued that letting the case proceed would require U.S. courts to improperly intervene in the political arena.