The Supreme Court hears last-chance appeal from a Jewish family in California seeking to recover a $30-million painting that was seized by the Nazis.
several justices said they agreed that a suit like this, filed in California, should be decided under California law.“Welcome to the United States. That’s how our courts work,” said Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
But all the while, Claude Cassirer had been searching for the lost painting that hung on the wall of his grandmother Lilly’s apartment in Berlin. She turned over the painting to a Nazi official in 1939 to obtain a visa out of Germany. Separately, her grandson escaped to Britain and then to Cleveland after the war.
After being rebuffed by the Spanish government, he filed suit in 2005 in a federal court in Los Angeles seeking to recover the painting, now valued at $30 million. While the baron had “reasons for suspicion” that the painting may have been stolen and the museum “may have been irresponsible” in failing to investigate its history, Walter said neither had “actual knowledge” that the painting had been essentially stolen by the Nazis.
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