Legal Opinion
Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 12, 2010No. 06-56325, 06-56406PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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RYMER, Circuit Judge:
Claude Cassirer is an American citizen whose grandmother’s Pissarro painting was allegedly confiscated in 1939 by an agent of the Nazi government in Germany because she was a Jew. He filed suit in federal district court to recover the painting, or damages, from the Kingdom of Spain and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, an instrumentality of Spain, which now claims to own the painting. Spain and the Foundation moved to dismiss, asserting, among other things, sovereign immunity pursuant to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. § 1602, et…
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