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Case Summary
Cleveland Museum of Art v. District Attorney of New York County, New York
Cleveland Museum of Art v. District Attorney of New York County, New York, No. 1:23-cv-02048 (N.D. Ohio Oct. 19, 2023).
Précis
On August 14, 2023, a New York judge signed a search warrant of the Manhattan DA ordering the statue to be seized. The warrant was secured as part of an ongoing investigation into a smuggling network involving antiquities looted from Bubon and trafficked through New York County. The bronze remains at the CMA, though it has been “seized in place.”
Two months later, the CMA initiated a lawsuit against the Manhattan DA in the Federal District Court of the Northern District of Ohio. The CMA challenges ...
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