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In the Matter of Riven Flamenbaum, Deceased. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Respondent, Hannah K. Flamenbaum, Appellant, Israel Flamenbaum, Respondent.

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9 Cited authorities

  1. Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino

    376 U.S. 398 (1964)   Cited 763 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the federal common law act of state doctrine precluded a federal court from considering a state law challenge to the Cuban government's expropriation of certain property

  2. Vineberg v. Bissonnette

    548 F.3d 50 (1st Cir. 2008)   Cited 306 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Affirming district court's denial of request to reopen discovery filed five weeks after opponent's motion for summary judgment

  3. Chabad of U.S. v. Russian Fed

    528 F.3d 934 (D.C. Cir. 2008)   Cited 101 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding to the extent jurisdiction depends on particular factual propositions, the plaintiff has a burden of production with respect to such facts

  4. U.S. v. Aleskerova

    300 F.3d 286 (2d Cir. 2002)   Cited 90 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding there is "nothing extraordinary in nature or degree about the uniform application of the immigration laws," that allows a defendant to argue that the threat of persecution or the inability to avail oneself of the benefits of the immigration laws provide a permissible basis for departure from the guidelines

  5. Autocephalous Ch. v. Goldberg Feldman Arts

    917 F.2d 278 (7th Cir. 1990)   Cited 55 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a church was "recognized under and by the laws of the Republic of Cyprus as a distinct juridical entity" and thus was a "citizen or subject" of a foreign state for purposes of § 1332

  6. Kunstsammlungen Zu Weimar v. Elicofon

    678 F.2d 1150 (2d Cir. 1982)   Cited 53 times
    In Kunstsammlungen Zu Weimar v. Elicofon, 678 F.2d 1150 (2d Cir. 1982), the claimant-intervenor directly challenged the effect of a Thuringian statute which extinguished the claimant's contractual rights.

  7. Menzel v. List

    24 N.Y.2d 91 (N.Y. 1969)   Cited 51 times
    Determining the Act of State Doctrine does not apply to cases involving Nazi looted art and deciding in the Plaintiff's favor; the Defendant appealed a ruling which pertained to a third-party complaint filed against the initial sellor of the painting for breach of warranty of title; the appellate division modified the damages awarded to the Third–Party Plaintiff based on that appeal, however, the New York Court of Appeals reversed that modification

  8. Sotheby's, Inc. v. Shene

    04 Civ. 10067 (TPG) (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 23, 2009)   Cited 1 times

    04 Civ. 10067 (TPG). March 23, 2009 OPINION THOMAS GRIESA, Senior District Judge This interpleader action was brought by Sotheby's against Rod Shene, the German State of Baden-Württemberg, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts ("the Ministry"), and a German museum known as the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, for a determination of which of the defendants has title to a 16th-century German book known as the Augsburger Geschlechterbuch. Sotheby's, the Staatsgalerie, and the Ministry

  9. Menzel v. List

    49 Misc. 2d 300 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1966)   Cited 27 times
    In Menzel, a case involving a good faith purchase of a painting by Marc Ghagall, the court held that a cause of action for conversion or replevin accrues "against a person who lawfully comes by a chattel... not upon the stealing or the taking, but upon the defendant's refusal to convey the chattel upon demand."