Legal Opinion
Price v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 21, 1995No. 93-02564PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to decide whether a federal court can award damages against the United States in connection with its refusal to turn over pieces of art and historical photographs that were removed from Germany during the allied occupation after World War II. Billy Price, a Texas businessman, obtained a nearly $8 million judgment against the United States after it refused his demands for four watercolor paintings that were painted by Adolf Hitler and photographic archives that were compiled by Hitler’s personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffman, and Hoffman’s…
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