A majority of the Appellate Court panel called issues in an 18-year-long litigation over art stolen by Nazis "particularly thorny and substantial," calling on the California Supreme Court to clarify a test weighing whether California law or a Spanish law applies in the case.
May 22, 2023 at 07:12 PM
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Litigation editor
The original version of this story was published on The Recorder
A federal appeals court Monday asked California’s high court to clarify state law in a long-running ownership dispute over a painting stolen by Nazis.
A majority panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit asked the California Supreme Court to clarify a test weighing whether state law or an outside jurisdiction’s law applies.
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Camille Pisarro’s painting “Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain” (1897) hanging in Lilly Cassirer’s home in Germany. Image from court documents
