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Case Summary
Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, 461 F. Supp. 2d 1157 (C.D. Cal. 2006), aff'd in part, dismissed in part, and remanded, 580 F.3d 1048 (9th Cir. 2009), 616 F.3d 1019 (9th Cir. 2010) (en banc), on remand, No. 05-cv-3459 (C.D. Cal. 2012), rev'd, No. 15-5550 (9th Cir. 2017), aff'd on remand, No. 19-55616 (9th Cir. 2020), cert. denied, 17-1245 (U.S. 2018), vacated and remanded, 20–1566 (U.S. 2022).
Précis
This long-running federal dispute, reversed and remanded by the Ninth Circuit three times since its filing in 2005, concerned the ownership of a Pissarro painting relinquished in a Nazi-Era forced sale by Lilly Cassirer Neubauer and currently held in a state-run museum in Spain. The case pitted the art collector’s California-based heirs against the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation and, initially, the government of the Kingdom of Spain...
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