CASSIRER v. THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA COLLECTION FOUND

No. 20-1566.

142 S.Ct. 1502 (2022)

596 U.S. 107

David CASSIRER, et al., Petitioners, v. THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA COLLECTION FOUNDATION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 21, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mathew Staver , Orlando, FL, for petitioners.

Sopan Joshi for United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting reversal.

Douglas Hallward-Driemeier , Washington, DC, for respondents.

Scott E. Gant , Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Washington, DC, Samuel J. Dubbin , P.A. Dubbin & Kravetz LLP, Coral Gables, FL, Laura W. Brill , Nicholas Daum , Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP, Los Angeles, CA, David Boies , Counsel of Record, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Armonk, NY, David A. Barrett , Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, New York, NY, Stephen N. Zack , Andrew S. Brenner , Rossana Baeza , Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Miami, FL, for petitioners.

Sarah Erickson Andre , Counsel of Record, Thaddeus J. Stauber Nixon Peabody LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for respondent.


Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. § 1602 et seq., a foreign state or instrumentality is amenable in specified circumstances to suit in an American court. In this case, the plaintiffs brought such a suit to recover expropriated property. The question...

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