Judge turns down disability groups' bid to receive Holocaust settlement funds
NEW YORK, April 21, 2004 -- A federal judge has turned down the applications of disability groups who sought to participate in the residual settlement fund of the Swiss Bank Holocaust litigation. Disablity Rights Advocates' Sid Wolinsky calls the decision made by U. S. District Court Judge Edward R. Korman "morally wrong, historically inaccurate and legally deficient," adding that it constitutes "an unnecessary rejection of entire communities of people who to this day still suffer isolation and marginalization in societies around the world."