By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, to avoid a lawsuit brought under an American anti-terrorism law alleging that it did business with a group blamed for downing a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over Ukraine in 2014.

The justices turned away Sberbank’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling letting the family of Quinn Schansman, an 18-year-old American passenger who was killed in the crash, sue the state-controlled lender.

Schansman’s family sued under the Anti-Terrorism Act, which lets U.S. nationals injured by an “act of international terrorism” seek damages in private civil lawsuits.

In February, the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that Sberbank was not entitled to sovereign immunit

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