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The exception would be if property was seized from foreign nationals.
“United States law governs domestically but does not rule the world,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the decision.
“Look what you’re opening up,” said Justice Stephen Breyer during arguments, as quoted by
Bloomberg Law. He noted that, if this were the case, the list of things that America could be held accountable for in foreign courts would go “on and on.”
The battle to recover the artwork began in Germany in 2008 when the heirs first sued to secure the artwork. In 2014, the German Advisory Commission on Nazi-looted art ruled in a non-binding decision that the sale had not taken place under duress, reported