Seventy years ago, Nazi forces and the Hungarian government seized a trove of art belonging to the family of Baron Mór Lipót Herzog, a Jewish Hungarian collector. Herzog’s heirs have fought since the end of World War II to recover pieces from the collection, scoring a recent win in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
A three-judge panel affirmed a lower court’s order denying the Hungarian government’s motion to dismiss the Herzog heirs’ case. The April 19 ruling represented the latest test of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in cases involving art and other property seized by foreign governments.
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