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Ninth Circuit Decision Declines to Apply "Political Question" Doctrine and Allows Holocaust Survivors to Proceed with Action against the Vatican Bank |
April 28, 2005
Previously published on April 22, 2005
In a 2-1 decision issued on April 18, 2005, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that certain Holocaust survivors could proceed at the pleading stage with their class action lawsuit against the Vatican Bank for return of property looted by Nazi allies during World War II, which allegedly was deposited in that bank. The court rejected defendants' contention that the claims raised political questions that the courts were constitutionally prohibited from adjudicating.
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