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Civil Lawsuit against Swift Consortium Can Move Forward, Judge Rules
By Brian Orsak
printThe Bush administration suffered a setback Friday when a federal judge rejected its effort to block a civil lawsuit against an international banking consortium that provides the administration with data for terrorist investigations. Judge T.S. Ellis of the U.S. Eastern District of Virginia court denied a motion to dismiss a suit against Swift, or the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, by two American men who claim the organization violated their privacy rights by sharing with the U.S. government information about international transactions. The two men say that the Brussels-based consortium, which supplies a messaging service for transactions among more...
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