art-restitution

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24A293 David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation Ninth Circuit 2024-09-25 Presumed Complete art-restitution california-law choice-of-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act nazi-looted-art spanish-law Whether a federal court should apply the choice-of-law rules of the forum state to determine the substantive law governing a claim involving a Nazi-lo…
19-942 Laurel Zuckerman, as Ancillary Administratrix of the Estate of Alice Leffmann v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Second Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Amici (7)Response Waived art-restitution civil-rights holocaust-expropriated-art-recovery-act holocaust-expropriation laches laches-defense nazi-persecution property-recovery statute-of-limitations unclean-hands Whether the nonstatutory defense of laches may bar an action to recover artwork lost because of Nazi persecution, where that action has been brought w…
18-1057 Marei von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Amici (3) act-of-state-doctrine art-restitution civil-rights due-process foreign-policy holocaust-assets looted-art nazi-looted-art property-rights sovereign-immunity sovereign-interest Where artworks were forcibly confiscated from their Jewish owner by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring, then recovered by the Dutch government after …