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U.S. v. PRE-COLUMBIAN ARTIFACTS

No. 93 C 2654.

845 F.Supp. 544 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. PRE-COLUMBIAN ARTIFACTS and the Republic of Guatemala, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

October 14, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gillum Richard Ferguson, U.S. Attorney's Office, Chicago, IL, for the U.S.

Roy W. Sears, Gerald R. Singer, Eckhart, McSwain, Silliman & Sears; Eileen Teresa Pahl, Ray O. Rodriguez, Raul A. Villalobos, Rodriguez & Villalobos, Chicago, IL; and Suzan J. Sutherland, Siegel & Wille, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, for Republic of Guatemala.

Thomas Aquinas Foran and Carmen David Caruso, Foran & Schultz, Chicago, IL, for Louis Krauss, Jerome Grunes, and Barbara Grunes.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HART, District Judge.

The United States filed this interpleader action to determine who is entitled to certain pre-Columbian artifacts seized from interpleader defendants Louis Krauss, Jerome Grunes, and Barbara Grunes (the "Grunes defendants") in November 1990. The artifacts are alleged to have been exported from Guatemala in violation of Guatemalan law. The Grunes defendants claim a lawful interest in the property.

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