Legal Opinion
Bakalar v. Vavra
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 11, 2012No. 11-4042-cvUnpublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUMMARY ORDER
This is an ownership dispute concerning a 1917 drawing by Egon Schiele (the “Drawing”), between David Bakalar, who seeks a declaration that he owns it by purchase from a dealer, and Milos Vavra and Leon Fischer, who are heirs of Austrian cabaret performer, Fritz Grunbaum, who owned it before he was murdered by the Nazis in 1941. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pauley III, J.) awarded judgment to Bakalar on the basis of laches. Bakalar v. Vavra, 819 F.Supp.2d 293, 307 (S.D.N.Y.2011). “Following a bench trial, we set aside findings of fact…
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