Washington – On Monday, the Supreme Court rescued the claim of a family to receive a painting that was hung up in a Berlin apartment in 1939 and was stolen by the Nazis.
In A short orderFor the second time, the judges stormed the Circuit Court court and said that the fate of the Claude Pissarro painting should be decided under the conditions of a new California law that protects the rightful arts that were lost during the Holocaust.
A federal judge had repeatedly decided in Los Angeles and the Court Court of the US 9th Circuit in San Francisco, which had legally received the painting, so -called “”Rue Saint-Honoré in the afternoon. Effect of the rain“, More than 30 years ago, a rightful claim was to own it.
However, this legal conclusion about the broadcast of ownership met with the moral claim that stolen works of art from the Holocaust era have to be returned.
In 2000, Claude Cassirer, a resident of San Diego, was amazed to find out that the painting he remembered from the Berlin apartment was hung in a museum in Madrid.
After trying to return it from the museum, he submitted a lawsuit to a federal court in Los Angeles in 2005. Claude Cassirer died in 2010; His wife Beverly in 2020.
Last year, the California legislature changed the law of the state in response to the case.
“For survivors of the Holocaust and their families, the struggle for art and other personal objects that the Nazis stole, those who have already gone through the unimaginable,” said governor Gavin Newsom when he signed the legislation. “It is both a moral and a legal afternoon that these valuable and sentimental pieces are returned to their lawful owners, and I am proud to strengthen the laws in California in order to secure justice for families.”
In response to this, the lawyers of David Cassirer, the couple's son, entered the Supreme Court and asked the judges to clear the recent decision of the 9th circuit or to put aside.
The court did just that on Monday.
It granted the complaint and asked the 9th circle to rethink the case according to the new California law.