United States Ninth Circuit

In an action by an American citizen whose grandmother's Pissarro painting was allegedly confiscated in 1939 by an agent of the Nazi government in Germany because she was a Jew, denial of motions to dismiss the complaint are affirmed where: 1) the court lacked jurisdiction to review the district court's decision declining to dismiss the action for lack of personal jurisdiction and a case or controversy; and 2) 28 U.S.C. section 1605(a)(3) did not require the foreign state against whom the claim was made to be the one that took the property.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/12/2010
• Published 08/12/2010

Judges

• Pamela Ann Rymer

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel