In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court resurrected a lawsuit over the ownership of a French painting — now in the possession of a renowned museum in Spain — that a Jewish woman surrendered to the Nazis in 1939 so that she could flee Germany
"The path of our decision has been as short as the hunt for Rue Saint-Honoré was long; our ruling is as simple as the conflict over its rightful owner has been vexed," Kagan wrote.
One of the Cassirer family's lawyers, Scott Gant of the firm Boies Schiller Flexner, said that when the case returns to the district court with the ruling in hand the family will again ask that California law be used in a second trial. The lawyer said people should be asking the Kingdom of Spain, which created the foundation,"Why are you insisting on maintaining ownership when there is no dispute that it was stolen by the Nazis from Lilly Cassirer?"Lilly's grandson Claude Cassirer, who was the original plaintiff in the case, died in 2010.
David Cassirer, the great-grandson of Lilly Cassirer, poses for a photo outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Cassirer blasted the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation for"not doing the right thing here," saying the museum had to have known that the Pissaro had been looted by the Nazis.
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