art-restitution
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 … |