WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court onMonday allowed Barclays Plc to claim about $4 billion ofdisputed assets as part of its hurried purchase of much ofLehman Brothers Holdings Inc's brokerage unit at theheight of the 2008 financial crisis.
The U.S. top court declined to hear an appeal filed byLehman's creditors, leaving intact an August 2014 ruling by the2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that went in favorof Barclays. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)