The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law requiring California insurance companies to disclose their Holocaust-era policies. The court ruled 5-4 that the Holocaust Victims Insurance Relief Act, passed in California in 1999, interfered with the president’s conduct of foreign policy.
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