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KONOWALOFF v. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Docket No. 11-4338-cv.

702 F.3d 140 (2012)

Pierre KONOWALOFF, Paris, France, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York, New York, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 18, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Tyrrell, Jr. , Newark, NJ ( Joseph E. Hopkins , Jonathan M. Peck , Calvin W. Souder , Patton Boggs , Newark, NJ; Paul V. Curcio , Philip Y. Brown , Adam M. Weisberger , Adler Pollock & Sheehan, Boston, MA; Allan Gerson , AG International Law, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

David W. Bowker , Washington, D.C. (Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Washington, D.C.; Charu A. Chandrasekhar , Michael D. Gottesman , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, KEARSE and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Pierre Konowaloff appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Shira A. Scheindlin, Judge, dismissing his action against defendant Metropolitan Museum of Art (the "Museum") for its acquisition, possession, display, and retention of a painting that had been confiscated by the Russian Bolshevik regime from Konowaloff's great-grandfather in 1918. The district court granted the...

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