Docket 20-1566
Docket 20-1566
Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation
David Cassirer and others filed a lawsuit to recover a painting stolen from their ancestors by the Nazi regime in 1939. The Supreme Court decided that federal courts hearing state-law claims under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act must apply the forum state's choice-of-law rules rather than federal common law.
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- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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