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Pissarro painting confiscated by Nazis at center of Supreme Court arguments - CNN
Jan 18, 2022 50 secs

A lawyer for the art foundation, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, asked the Supreme Court to set out a "fair and balanced way" for federal courts to approach these kinds of cases, as different states have different legal tests that could be applied, depending on where the family had brought the case.

He filed the lawsuit in 2005 after learning the painting was on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum after the foundation rebuffed his other efforts to have the painting returned.

The dispute before the Supreme Court turns on how federal courts should decide -- under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which sets limits on when a foreign entity is immune to litigation -- whether to apply a state law or the law of the foreign country.

The Cassirer family -- now being led in the litigation by Claude's children after Claude died in 2010 -- are making claims under a California law that they say makes them the rightful owners of the painting, because of how the artwork was obtained.

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