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CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit dismissed a suit filed by the descendants of Jews rounded up in France during World War II and sent via French trains to Nazi death camps. The descendants seek compensation for the theft of their family members' belongings, but Supreme Court precedent says the Alien Tort Statute does not provide a remedy for triple-foreign events that are unconnected to the U.S, and nothing in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act implies a different approach.
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