Plaintiffs' counsel said a 2016 federal law on the recovery of stolen art may provide more time to make sure the painting is in the right hands, and favors jurisdiction in the United States. But defense lawyers said that there was no abuse of discretion in the lower courts and the Court of Appeals should not seek to "re-balance" factors.
November 17, 2021 at 06:37 PM
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New York’s highest court is weighing whether New York is an appropriate forum for a lawsuit regarding an Edgar Degas painting looted by the Nazis in the 1930s after two lower courts found that it was not, noting that the case involves complex questions of European law and an ongoing, parallel proceeding in Switzerland.
The painting, “Danseuses,” was stolen from Margaret Kainer, who spent the war as a refugee in Switzerland and died without a will in France in 1968.
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