holocaust-expropriation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1075 Zehava Friedman, et al. v. Republic of Hungary, et al. District of Columbia 2024-04-03 Denied Relisted (2) domestic-takings-exception expropriation foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity holocaust-expropriation international-law international-law-taking property-rights stateless-persons treaty-of-trianon Whether Hungary and MAV violated the international law of expropriation by seizing stateless persons' property
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…