NEW YORK (Reuters) — A US judge on Tuesday rejected UBS’s bid to clarify a $1.25 billion settlement from 1999 of Holocaust-related litigation against Swiss banks by shielding it from claims based on new revelations about Nazi-linked accounts.

US District Judge Edward Korman in Brooklyn, New York, said UBS was seeking an advisory opinion protecting it from “hypothetical” lawsuits that haven’t been filed.

“Until a genuine case or controversy arises that requires judicial interpretation of its terms, the agreement will continue to speak for itself,” Korman wrote.

UBS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group, had argued that UBS’s proposal would improperly expand the 1999 settlement to encompass newly uncovered facts about banks’ dealings with the Third Reich. Its lawyers........

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