Will US Supreme Court Hear Nazi Art Looting Case?

Egon Schiele's Seated Woman with Bent Left Leg (Torso) 1917

A petition was docketed this Monday asking the US Supreme Court to review a case where state law was used to grant title to a stolen artwork to a US purchaser.    A PDF of the petition for certiorari can be accessed below.  This is an important opportunity for the US Supreme Court to review the issue of Nazi-looted art in the United States, an issue that has created disarray in our federal courts and has pitted state law against such federal laws as the National Stolen Property Act 18 USC 2314.

My firm represents the petitioner and I am counsel of record.  This was the first Nazi-era art looting case ever to be tried in a U.S. federal court.

Vavra v Bakalar Cert Petition - Nazi Looted Art At US Supreme Court

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Nazi Art Looting: Egon Schiele, George Grosz and Stolen Art in U.S. Museums

The Roundtable Presents
Nazi Art Looting: Egon Schiele, George Grosz and Stolen Art in U.S. Museums

Tuesday, March 12, 8:00 PM Illustrated Lecture

National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South
New York, NY 10003

Ray Dowd returns to the NAC, this time to take us on an astonishing visual tour of the latest Nazi looting cases to hit the art world. He queries whether U.S. museums and collectors have betrayed the Allied victory in World War II by holding on to works belonging to persecuted Jewish families. Will the U.S. Supreme Court deal with the issue? A pre-eminent litigator in federal and state courts, Dowd has lectured at venues such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the 2009 Holocaust-Era Assets Conference in Prague, and most recently at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He is a partner in the law firm of Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP in NYC and is a national officer of the Federal Bar Association. You’ve read about his cases in The New York Times and ArtNews, now get the story first hand.


For further information please contact the National Arts Club at (212) 475-3424

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Should Stolen Holocaust Art be Returned? Legal and Policy Perspectives and Recent Case Developments

Should Stolen Holocaust Art be Returned? Legal and Policy Perspectives and Recent Case Developments

Thursday, March 21, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
2nd floor auditorium

Join us for a very special program discussing the hot button issues of whether stolen Holocaust art should be returned. Learn about recent cases and understand the legal and policy perspectives, including a presentation by Ambassador Douglas Davidson, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, U.S. State Department.
AGENDA

• Introduction and Overview of the Issues
• A View from the U.S. State Department
• From Abraham Lincoln's Code of War to the Morgenthau Seizure at MOMA: The American Victory in World War II, Recent Case Law and the Failure to Return Stolen Art to Holocaust Victms
• Nazi Looted Art Commissions After 1998 Washington Conference: Comparing the European and American Experiences
• Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain:An Update

Faculty:
Program Chair and Faculty: Raymond Dowd, Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP

Faculty: Hon. Stephen Crane (Ret.), JAMS; Ambassador Douglas Davidson, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues; Victor Kovner, Davis,Wright Tremaine LLP; David Rowland, Esq.,  Rowland & Petroff LLP, Sharon Cohen-Levin, A.U.S.A., Southern District of New York

Member Price:

$125

Non-Member Attorney Price:

$175

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 Copyright law, fine art and navigating the courts. All practice, no theory.
Copyright Litigation Handbook (Thomson Reuters Westlaw 2012-2013) by Raymond J. Dowd