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Sotheby's v. Shene

Sotheby’s, Inc. v. Shene, No. 04CV10067 (TPG), 2009 WL 762697 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 23, 2009).

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In this interpleader action, a German museum and an American purchaser (Rod Shene) fought for the ownership of a 16^th-century book of engravings and drawings, which had been stored for safekeeping during WWII...

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Sotheby’s, Inc. v. Shene et al, No. 04CV10067 (TPG), 2009 WL 762697 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 23, 2009).

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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA")

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