Legal Opinion
Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 8, 2009No. 06-56325, 06-56406PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge N.R. SMITH; Partial concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge IKUTA.
N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Claude Cassirer (“Cassirer”) filed this action in federal district court against the Kingdom of Spain (“Spain”) and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation (the “Foundation”)1 to recover a Camille Pissarro painting now on display at the Foundation’s museum in Madrid, Spain. Cassirer alleges that the painting was taken from his grandmother in violation of international law in 1939 by an agent of the government of Nazi Germany. On appeal, Appellants challenge the district court’s…
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