The United States does not plan to urge a federal appeals court to review a ruling that prevented Nazi-era slave laborers from suing the German firms they worked for, according to the Treasury Department. A spokeswoman for the department said Tuesday that U.S. officials do not want to “do anything that could be perceived of as taking sides during such a sensitive time during the negotiations.” A ruling on Sept. 13 by a federal court in Newark found that several treaties precluded the laborers’ class-action lawsuits.
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