Nazi-Stolen Art Can Stay in Spain After Supreme Court Remand

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit once again sided with a Spanish museum after nearly two decades of litigation over possession of a Pissarro work stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

Lilly Cassirer surrendered the Impressionist painting to the Nazis in 1939 in order to obtain an exit visa. She eventually ended up in California.

When her grandson Claude in 2000 discovered that the work had been purchased by the Spanish-owned Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, he sued to get the painting back.

Possession of the painting turns on a double-layered dispute over what law to apply ...