Law Practice
Aug. 14, 2010
Suit To Recover Art Stolen Can Proceed
California heirs in California are trying to recover a painting stolen by the Nazis that is now in a Spanish museum.
The California-based heir of the owner of a painting by the French impressionist Camille Pissarro stolen by the Nazis in Munich in 1939 and currently on display in Madrid can sue the Spanish government for its return, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. With a 9-2 vote, an en-banc panel affirmed a three-judge panel that came to the same conclusion a year ago. The decision for the first time interpreted the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to ...
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