The Supreme Court on Thursday kept alive a San Diego man’s hope of reclaiming a valuable impressionist masterpiece taken from his family by the Nazis and now.
A leading Spanish museum said Friday it's confident that U.S. courts will again rule that a valuable French impressionist painting once taken from a Jewish family by the Nazis belongs to the museum, and not to descendants of the family.
On April 21, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Cassirer et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, No. 20-1566, holding that federal courts hearing state-law claims under.
The family's attorneys say they will prevail because California law does not allow purchases of stolen goods even if the buyer purchased it in good faith.