The unanimous decision sends the case -- filed 17 years ago -- back to lower courts
In a unanimous decision announced Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the La Mesa heirs of a Jewish woman whose French Impressionist painting was looted by the Nazis during World War II and is hanging now in a Spanish museum.
“Although the legal issue before us is prosaic,” Justice Elena Kagan said in delivering the opinion Thursday, “the case’s subject matter and background are anything but.” In 1976, it was purchased for $275,000 at a gallery in New York by a Swiss art collector named Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, the son of a steel magnate. He hung it in the master bedroom suite of his villa in Lugano, Switzerland.
Cassirer died in 2010. His son, David, and daughter, Ava, took over as plaintiffs. She passed away in 2018. David Cassirer, a longtime San Diego County resident, lives now in Montana and Colorado.
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