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GROSZ v. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

No. 10-257.

MARTIN GROSZ AND LILIAN GROSZ, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, HERMANN-NEISSE WITH COGNAC, PAINTING BY GROSZ, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH MODEL, PAINTING BY GROSZ, REPUBLICAN AUTOMATONS, PAINTING BY GROSZ, Defendants-Appellees, AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS, COMMISSION FOR ART RECOVERY, FILIPPA MARULLO ANZALONE, YEHUDA BAUER, MICHAEL J. BAZYLER, BERNARD DOV BELIAK, MICHAEL BERENBAUM, DONALD S. BURRIS, JUDY CHICAGO AND DONALD WOODMAN, TALBERT D'ALEMBERTE, MARION F. DESMUKH, HEDY EPSTEIN, HECTOR FELICIANO, IRVING GREENBERG, GRACE COHEN GROSSMAN, MARCIA SACHS LITTEL, HUBERT G. LOCKE, CARRIE MENKEL-MEADOW, ARTHUR R. MILLER, CAROL RITTNER, JOHN K. ROTH, LUCILLE A. ROUSSIN, WILLIAM L. SHULMAN, STEPHEN D. SMITH, FRITZ WEINSCHENK, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

December 16, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DAVID ROWLAND ( Patricia Hertling , on the brief), Rowland & Petroff, New York, NY; Raymond Dowd , Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP, New York, NY., for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

CHARLES S. SIMS ( Margaret A. Dale , Jennifer L. Jones , on the brief), Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY., for Defendants-Appellees.

Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr. , Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, IN; Jennifer Kreder , Law Office of Jennifer Kreder, Florence, KY., for Amici Curiae.

Present: JOSÉA. CABRANES, BARRINGTON D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, EDWARD R. KORMAN, District Judge.

SUMMARY ORDER

UPON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the judgment of the District Court is AFFIRMED.

Plaintiffs Martin and Lilian Grosz ("plaintiffs" or "Grosz heirs") are the legal heirs to the estate of the late painter George Grosz ("Grosz"). Three of Grosz's works of art, Hermann-Neisse with Cognac, Self-Portrait with Model, and Republican Automatons are currently in the possession...

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