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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON v. SEGER-THOMSCHITZ

No. 09-1922.

623 F.3d 1 (2010)

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Claudia SEGER-THOMSCHITZ, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 14, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Hamilton , with whom J. Owen Todd , David H. Rich , and Todd & Weld LLP were on brief, for appellant.

Simon J. Frankel , with whom Theodore P. Metzler , Covington & Burling LLP, Robert J. Muldoon, Jr. , Thomas Paul Gorman , and Sherin & Lodgen LLP were on brief, for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and BARBADORO, District Judge.

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Claudia Seger-Thomschitz, the sole surviving heir of Austrian-Jewish art collector Oskar Reichel, seeks to recover possession of Oskar Kokoschka's Two Nudes (Lovers) ("the Painting"), a valuable oil painting formerly owned by Reichel and now held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ("the MFA"). Seger-Thomschitz alleges that Reichel was forced to sell the Painting under duress after Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 and that good...

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