WASHINGTON – A lawsuit was filed on behalf of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and their families against Riggs Bank for allegedly contributing to the disaster through negligence, as both the owner and the leaseholder of the World Trade Center site took aim at Saudi Arabia’s leaders, its banks and its charities in their own legal complaints, Monday’s Wall Street Journal reported.
As the deadline for filing court claims expired Friday ahead of the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a spate of lawsuits arrived at the District Court for the Southern District of New York. The filings set up a series of legal struggles that likely will take years to play out at the federal courthouse in Manhattan, with important ramifications in politics, big business and diplomacy.
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