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Case Summary
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Christie’s Inc. et al
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Christie’s Inc. et al, No. 1:20-cv-02239 (E.D.N.Y. Jan. 5, 2021).
Précis
A Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet, known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet (“Tablet”), is at the center of this dispute as a result of a contemporaneous forfeiture action United States v. One Cuneiform Tablet known as the “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet”. It is one of 12 tablets found in 1853 among Assyrian ruins in modern-day Iraq, which are inscribed with the Epic of Gilgamesh. As an Iraqi artifact, the tablet is subject to...
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