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VON SAHER v. NORTON SIMON MUS. OF ART AT PASADENA

No. 12-55733.

754 F.3d 712 (2014)

Marei VON SAHER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NORTON SIMON MUSEUM OF ART AT PASADENA; Norton Simon Art Foundation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 6, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence M. Kaye (argued), Herrick, Feinstein LLP, New York, New York; Donald S. Burris , Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, LLP, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Fred A. Rowley, Jr. (argued), Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Catherine Z. Ysrael , Deputy Attorney General, for Amicus Curiae State of CA.

Before: HARRY PREGERSON, DOROTHY W. NELSON, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:

This case concerns the fate of two life-size panels painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the sixteenth century. Adam and Eve (collectively, "the Cranachs" or "the panels") hang today in Pasadena's Norton Simon Museum of Art ("the Museum"). Marei Von Saher claims she is the rightful owner of the panels, which the Nazis forcibly purchased from her deceased husband's family during World War II. The district...

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