David Cassirer, et al v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection

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Case Number:

19-55616

Court:

Appellate - 9th Circuit

Nature of Suit:

4380 Other Personal Property Damage

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  1. July 09, 2024

    9th Circ. Won't Revive Great-Grandson's Nazi-Looted Art Suit

    The Ninth Circuit said Tuesday it won't rehear a unanimous panel decision that a Spanish museum has no obligation to return a Camille Pissarro painting that the Nazis stole from a Holocaust survivor's grandmother, despite a senior circuit judge's protest that California law should apply.

  2. April 29, 2024

    9th Circ. Urged To Revive Nazi-Looted Art Claim

    A California man who has been trying for nearly two decades to get a Spanish museum to return a painting that the Nazis stole from his great-grandmother is urging the Ninth Circuit to rethink a unanimous panel decision concluding that the museum is under no obligation to do so.

  3. January 09, 2024

    9th Circ. Says Spanish Museum May Keep Nazi-Looted Art

    The Ninth Circuit unanimously held Tuesday that a Spanish museum is not obligated to return a painting that was stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis, a finding that one member of the panel admitted went against her "moral compass."

  4. October 03, 2023

    Calif. Seeks To Weigh In On Nazi-Theft Art Case

    The state of California has again waded into a family's fight for the return of a $30 million impressionist painting that was stolen from them by Nazis during the Holocaust and is now on display in a Madrid museum, telling the Ninth Circuit that its laws, not Spain's, should be used to resolve the 18-year-old lawsuit.

  5. May 23, 2023

    Split 9th Circ. Kicks Nazi-Theft Art Case To Calif. High Court

    A split Ninth Circuit on Monday asked California justices to clarify whether Spanish or Golden State law applies in a Supreme Court-revived, decades-old fight between Holocaust survivors and a Spanish museum over a $30 million impressionist painting stolen by Nazis, with a dissenting judge criticizing the delay as "needless."

  6. November 30, 2022

    Riding Circuit: December's Notable Appellate Arguments

    As the year winds down, circuit courts will hear argument on the kinds of crimes Jan. 6 rioters can be charged with, whether federal law unconstitutionally delegates power to a private entity, and whether a class can be certified even if some class members weren't actually injured.

  7. July 07, 2022

    Calif. Got 'Short Shrift' In Nazi Art Theft Suit, 9th Circ. Told

    Following a U.S. Supreme Court revival earlier this year, California asked the Ninth Circuit to allow it to file an amicus brief in a 17-year-old lawsuit over a painting stolen by the Nazis, arguing that its law should trump that of Spain, where the painting is owned by a museum.

  8. August 17, 2020

    Museum's Win In Nazi-Stolen Art Fight Affirmed At 9th Circ.

    The Ninth Circuit on Monday affirmed a lower court's judgment that a Spanish museum did not break that country's laws by acquiring a Camille Pissarro painting stolen by the Nazis, ruling that the correct test to determine whether the institution was willfully blind to the origin of the painting had been applied.

  9. July 07, 2020

    Museum Willfully Blind To Nazi-Stolen Art, 9th Circ. Told

    A California federal judge erred by finding that a Spanish museum owns a Camille Pissarro painting because it didn't have "actual knowledge" that Nazis looted it, David Boies of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP argued to the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday on behalf of family from whom the work was stolen.