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ORKIN v. SWISS CONFEDERATION

No. 11-1414-cv.

ANDREW ORKIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE SWISS CONFEDERATION, MUSEUM OSKAR REINHART AM STADTGARTEN, and SAMMLUNG OSKAR REINHART "AM RÖMERHOLZ," Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

October 12, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

RICHARD A. ALTMAN , Law Office of Richard A. Altman, New York, New York, Appearing for Appellant.

LAURIE E. FOSTER ( Matthew Kalinowski , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, New York; Allyson N. Ho, Morgan , Lewis & Bockius LLP, Houston, Texas, on the brief), Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, New York, Appearing for Appellees.

Present: ROGER J. MINER, ROBERT D. SACK, REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

SUMMARY ORDER

UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the judgment of the district court entered on March 15, 2011, is AFFIRMED.

Andrew Orkin, who sued the Swiss Confederation, the Oskar Reinhart Foundation, and the Oskar Reinhart Collection, to recover a Vincent van Gogh drawing once owned by his great-grandmother, appeals the dismissal of this action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities...

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