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Heirs of the dealers who sold the collection of medieval artefacts to the Prussian government claim their case can be heard in US court because the dealers were not German citizens at the time of the sale
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Justices Clarify Sovereign Immunity Exception In Nazi Art Row Law360 (February 3, 2021, 10:56 AM EST) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated a D.C. Circuit decision that kept alive a case seeking $250 million for medieval art that was allegedly looted by the Nazis, siding with Germany's narrower view of an exception to U.S. foreign sovereign immunity law. The D.C. Circuit in 2018 agreed with Alan Philipp and other heirs of several Jewish art dealers that Germany qualified for the so-called expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act beca...
These 2014 photos show (left) the 13th century medieval Dome Reliquary and (right) a medieval cross, artifacts belonging to the Welfenschatz on display at the Bode Museum in Berlin. The heirs of several Nazi-era Jewish art dealers have spent nearly a decade trying to persuade German officials to return the collection of medieval relics valued at more than $250 million. ( AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday torpedoed a pair of lawsuits against Germany and Hungary from the heirs of Jewish art dealers seeking restitution for a medieval collection s...