David Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Opinion
Opinion
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
DAVID CASSIRER; THE ESTATE No. 19-55616
OF AVA CASSIRER; UNITED
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN D.C. No. DIEGO COUNTY, a California non- 2:05-cv-03459- profit corporation, JFW-E
Plaintiffs-Appellants,
ORDER
v.
THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA
COLLECTION FOUNDATION, an agency or instrumentality of the Kingdom of Spain,
Defendant-Appellee.
Filed July 9, 2024
Consuelo M. Callahan, Carlos T. Bea, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
Order; Statement by Judge Graber CASSIRER V. THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA COLLECTION FOUND.
SUMMARY *
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
The panel filed an order denying a petition for panel rehearing and denying a petition for rehearing en banc in a case in which the panel affirmed the district court’s judgment in favor of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, an instrumentality of the Kingdom of Spain, in an action under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act seeking the return of a Pissarro painting stolen by the Nazis in 1939 Germany. Respecting the denial of rehearing en banc, Judge Graber, joined by Judge Paez, wrote that she…