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Case Summary
De Csepel v. Hungary (Herzog heirs)
De Csepel v. Hungary, No. 1:10-cv-01261(ESH) (D.D.C., July 27, 2010), filed; (D.D.C., Sept. 1, 2011), mot. granted in part; (D.D.C., Sept. 13, 2011), appeal filed; 714 F.3d 591 (D.C. Cir. Apr. 19, 2013), aff’d in part; 75 F. Supp. 3d 380 (D.D.C. Dec. 12, 2014), mot. denied; 169 F.Supp.3d 143 (D.D.C. Mar. 14. 2016), mot. granted in part; 859 F.3d 1094 (D.C. Cir. 2017), appeal aff’d; 139 S.Ct. 784 (2019), cert. denied; (D.D.C. May, 11, 2020) mot. granted in part; 27 F.4th 736 (D.C. Cir. 2022), aff’d; Museum of Fine Arts v. Csepel, 143 S. Ct. 630 (2023), cert. denied sub nom; De Csepel v. Hungary, No. 10-1261 (JDB) (D.D.C. Sept. 28. 2023), mot. to dismiss granted.
Précis
As part of a longstanding battle over art lost during Hungary’s Nazi past, heirs of a Hungarian-Jewish art collector brought a lawsuit in federal court in D.C. for the return of artworks once owned by their family, which are now in the collections of Hungarian-controlled cultural institutions. At issue are questions of foreign sovereign immunity, prior compensation, and whether the repossession of returned artworks by Hungary ...
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