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ORKIN v. TAYLOR

No. 05-55364.

487 F.3d 734 (2007)

Andrew J. ORKIN; F. Mark Orkin; Sarah-Rose Josepha Adler; A. Heinrich Zille, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Elizabeth TAYLOR, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 18, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Hamilton, Byrne Goldberg & Hamilton, PLLC, Washington, DC, for the appellants.

Steven Alan Reiss, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, New York, NY, for the appellee.

Before: WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR. and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and SUZANNE B. CONLON, District Judge.

THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

Descendants of Jewish art collector Margarete Mauthner (collectively, "the Orkins") claim that their ancestor was wrongfully dispossessed of a painting during Hitler's Nazi regime, entitling them to ownership of the painting, which was later purchased by actress Elizabeth Taylor. In this appeal, we conclude that the Holocaust Victims Redress Act does not create a private right of action and that the...

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