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SCHOEPS v. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

No. 07 Civ. 11074 (JSR).

603 F.Supp.2d 673 (2009)

Julius H. SCHOEPS, Edelgard von Lavergne-Peguilhen, and Florence Kesselstatt, Plaintiffs, v. The MUSEUM OF MODERN ART and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

March 23, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evan Davis, Esq., Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP, Gregory Joseph, Esq., Gregory P. Joseph Law Office LLC, New York, NY, for the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

John J. Byrne, Jr., Thomas J. Hamilton, Byrne, Goldenberg & Hamilton PLLC, Washington, DC, David G. Smitham, Esq., Bressler, Amery & Ross, PC, New York, NY, for Julius Schoeps et al.

MEMORANDUM ORDER

JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.

At the heart of this action are issues of considerable public import. Plaintiffs, heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and his wife, claim that two of New York's foremost cultural institutions turned a blind eye to the fact that great works of art in their collections—Pablo Picasso's Boy Leading a Horse (1905-1906), now owned by the Museum of Modern Art, and Picasso's Le Moulin de...

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