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The A&CHL Newsletter: The FSIA Commerical Activities Exception and Cultural Property as a Human Right
The American Bar Association Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee has released its Summer 2011 Newsletter, which is available for free download here. Of particular interest are the articles on the commercial activities exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and one on State v. Rubin (written before the newest decision). There is also an […]
Oral Arguments Scheduled in Black Swan Case
November 9, 2010
We’ve been following the Black Swan case fairly closely here on the Cultural Property & Archaeology Law Blog, and in the last month or two I’ve been getting emails and comments asking what’s going on in the case. But, finally! There is news to report! Oral arguments have been scheduled on Odyssey Marine Exploration’s appeal […]
Ninth Circuit Rejects Spain’s Sovereign Immunity Claim in Dispute Over Pissarro’s “Rue Saint Honore”
August 30, 2010
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a dispute between plaintiff Claude Cassirer and defendants Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation and the Kingdom of Spain over Pissarro’s Rue Saint Honore, finding that the defendants are indeed subject to the jurisdiction of the court and that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”) does not apply. The […]
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