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Case Summary
Brokerarte Capital Partners, LLC v. Detroit Institute of Arts
Brokerarte Cap. Partners, LLC v. Detroit Inst. of Arts, No. 23-CV-10066, 2023 WL 348331 at *1 (E.D. Mich. Jan. 20, 2023) appeal docketed, No. 23-01062 (6th Cir. Jan. 24, 2023).
Précis
The ownership of Vincent van Gogh's Une liseuse de romans (also known as The Novel Reader) exhibited at a much anticipated temporary exhibition Van Gogh in America was at stake in this dispute between a Brazilian collector Gustavo Soter and the Detroit Institute of Arts (“DIA”). The focal point of this case was the 1965 Federal Immunity from Seizure Act, a statute enacted during the Cold War granting immunity from lawsuits to foreign artworks on loan to U.S. museum exhibitions, invoked by the DIA in this case...
Associated Legal Decision(s)
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Brokerarte Cap. Partners, LLC v. Detroit Inst. of Arts, No. 23-CV-10066, 2023 WL 348331 at *1 (E.D. Mich. Jan. 20, 2023).
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Brokerarte Cap. Partners, LLC v. Detroit Inst. of Arts, No. 23-01062 (6th Cir. Feb. 6, 2023).
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Brokerarte Cap. Partners, LLC v. Detroit Inst. of Arts, No. 23-01062 (6th Cir. Apr. 10, 2023).
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