April 29, 2024
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.
January 09, 2024
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."
October 03, 2023
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.
May 23, 2023
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."
November 30, 2022
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.
July 07, 2022
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.
August 17, 2020
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.
July 07, 2020
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.