Vincent De Frontbrune v. Alan Wofsy

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

VINCENT SICRE DE FONTBRUNE; No. 14-15790

LOAN SICRE DE FONTBRUNE; ADEL

SICRE DE FONTBRUNE; ANAIS D.C. No. SICRE DE FONTBRUNE, in their 3:13-cv-05957-SC capacity as the personal representatives of the Estate of Yves Sicre de Fontbrune, ORDER AND Plaintiffs-Appellants, AMENDED

OPINION

v.

ALAN WOFSY; ALAN WOFSY &

ASSOCIATES,

Defendants-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Samuel Conti, Senior District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted May 9, 2016 San Francisco, California

Filed September 26, 2016 Amended November 14, 2016 Before: M. Margaret McKeown and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges and Richard F. Boulware,* District Judge.

Order; Opinion by Judge McKeown

SUMMARY**

Foreign Law

The panel reversed the district court’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) dismissal of Yves Sicre de Fontbrune’s action seeking to protect his copyright in photographs of Pablo Picasso’s artworks, and to enforce a French judgment of two million euros in astreinte in federal court against American art…