It seems that one of the longest Nazi recovery cases, which has been strongly discussed inside the courts for two decades, has faced its end last year when the American Court of Appeal for the ninth California circle against the plaintiffs ruled.
But on Monday, the Supreme Court revived it, as it evacuated the ruling in 2024 and returned the case to the Court of Appeal for further study after the approval of the California law in September.
In the case is the legal property of the French impressionist plate, which originally belongs to a German Jew and seized by the Nazis. It is estimated that the painting written by Camille Pissarro, titled “Rue Saint-Honoré Après-Midi, Effet De Pluie” (“Rue Saint-Honoré in the afternoon, the effect of rain”), is worth millions of dollars and is attached to a museum in Madrid. The descendants of the original owner of the museum were raised, claiming that the painting should return to their families.
One of the main points that preceded the courts was the issue of whether we had the United States or Spanish law. Last year, the Federal Court ruled that the Spanish law, not the California law, had submitted a request to the case and that the museum must retain ownership because it has legally acquired the painting.
This decision seemed to calm the lawsuit, until the legislators in California legislate in response to court ruling. the New lawAnd, which was released in September, says that the artworks that were stolen by the Nazis and the artworks in other recovery cases must be returned to their original owners.
The painting was originally owned by a Jewish woman, Lily Cassyer, who had to hand over the plate to the Nazis in exchange for an exit visa from Germany in 1939.
The painting was subsequently sold at a Nazi government auction and passed through the hands of a variety of university, including those in the United States, before Baron Hans Hinrich Tysen Tysinmasza buys it in 1976. The Spanish government bought the Baron Technical Group, including the painting, in 1993, and was displayed in the museum since then. In 1958, Germany paid Cassirer compensation of $ 13,000, or about 143,000 dollars in dollars today.
In 2000, Laila’s grandson, Claude Casser, discovered that the painting was held in the museum in Madrid, and later filed a lawsuit at the Federal Court in Los Angeles to try to recover the ownership. After the death of Claude and his wife both, their son David Casser became the prosecutor.
“As one of the Holocaust survivors, my late father, Claude Casser, was very proud to become an American citizen in 1947, and he was proud of the values ​​of this country.” “He was very disappointed that Spain refused to respect its international obligations to restore the Nazis’s masterpiece, although he passed away during this long battle, he will feel very comfortable because our democratic institutions require not to forget the history of the Holocaust.”
Thadius c. Stop, Lawyer of the Spanish Museum, the new California legislation should not change the minimum court decisions in relation to the painting.
“Our position will remain and it will always remain that the United States Court, which is sitting in California, has no jurisdiction to hear conflicts over the property in Spain,” said Stoppress. “I don’t think the people of New York want to get, let’s say, Russia, the United Kingdom or another country telling the citizens of New York, here is how to deal with property issues in your state.”
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