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Britain to Fight for City of London in Court Clash With ECB

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Bruised by David Cameron’s defeat over the leadership of the European Union’s executive arm, the U.K. faces its next clash with the EU tomorrow. It touches a sensitive point -- the City of London.

Britain’s lawyers will take on the European Central Bank in a hearing at the bloc’s top court -- fighting policies they argue would punish the nation’s financial hub because the U.K. has kept the pound sterling.