Legal Opinion
David De Csepel v. Republic of Hungary
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 19, 2013No. 11-7096, 12-7025, 12-7026PublishedCited by 132 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
TATEL, Circuit Judge:
As part of the wholesale plunder of Jewish property carried out during the Holocaust, the Hungarian government, acting in collaboration with Nazi Germany, confiscated the “Herzog Collection”—one of Europe’s largest and finest private art collections. Plaintiffs,' descendants of the Collection’s owner, claim that following World War II the Hungarian government entered into bailment agreements with them to retain possession of the Collection and later breached those agreements by refusing to return the artwork. Finding…
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