Legal Opinion
Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain
District Court, C.D. California
Decided August 30, 2006No. CV 05-3459-GAF(CTX)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER REGARDING DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS TO DISMISS
FEESS, District Judge.
I
INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND
A. The Lawsuit
In the present lawsuit, Plaintiff, the grandson of Lilly Cassirer Neubauer, seeks to recover from the Kingdom of Spain (“Spain”) and the Thyssen-Bornem-isza Collection Foundation (the “Foundation”), a painting by Camille Pissaro (the “Painting”) that the Nazis extorted from his grandmother in 1939 as a condition to issuing her an exit visa. After World War II, the painting changed hands several times, ultimately ending up in the hands of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, one of…
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