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Dunbar v. Seger-Thomschitz
Dunbar v. Seger-Thomschitz, 638 F. Supp. 2d 659 (E.D. La. 2009), aff'd, 615 F.3 574 (5th Cir. 2010), cert. denied, 131 S.Ct. 1511 (2011).
Précis
In 2008, Sarah Blodgett Dunbar initiated a declaratory judgment action against Dr. Claudia Seger-Thomschitz in Louisiana federal court to quiet title to a Kokoschka painting entitled Portrait of a Youth that had been in Dunbar’s possession since she inherited it from her mother in 1973. Seger-Thomschitz counterclaimed alleging that . . . .
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