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UNITED STATES v. ONE TINTORETTO PAINTING, ETC.

No. 1268, Docket 82-6021.

691 F.2d 603 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ONE TINTORETTO PAINTING ENTITLED "THE HOLY FAMILY WITH SAINT CATHERINE AND HONORED DONOR," Defendant in Rem. Isaac Silberberg, Claimant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 15, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Millington Campbell, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (John S. Martin, Jr., U. S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., Peter C. Salerno, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Allen Jay Bodner, New York City, for claimant-appellant.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge and SAND, District Judge.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

We are called upon to decide a forfeiture case commenced by the United States of America against a painting entitled "The Holy Family with Saint Catherine and Honored Donor," as defendant in rem. Two hundred years or so before the plaintiff United States came into being, the defendant in rem was painted by the tempestuous Italian Renaissance painter Tintoretto.1 Claiming that this valuable masterpiece...

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