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Supreme Court rules for California family seeking Pissarro painting looted by Nazis

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday for a California family seeking to recover a Pissarro painting looted by a Nazi official in 1939 and eventually put on display in a Spanish museum. The 9-0 ruling does not resolve the dispute but sends the case back to a courtroom in Los Angeles to decide the matter based on California law, which is more favorable to the family. The justices ...
General view of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and Paseo del Prado on March 12, 2020, in Madrid, Spain.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday for a California family seeking to recover a Pissarro painting looted by a Nazi official in 1939 and eventually put on display in a Spanish museum.

The 9-0 ruling does not resolve the dispute but sends the case back to a courtroom in Los Angeles to decide the matter based on California law,

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