David CASSIRER; Ava Cassirer; United Jewish Federation of San Diego County, a California non-profit corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA COLLECTION FOUNDATION, an agency or instrumentality of the Kingdom of Spain, Defendant-Appellant.
David Cassirer; Ava Cassirer; United Jewish Federation of San Diego County, a California non-profit corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, an agency or instrumentality of the Kingdom of Spain, Defendant-Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted December 5, 2016 Pasadena, California.
Filed July 10, 2017.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
David Boies (argued), Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, Armonk, New York; Devin Velvel Freedman, Andrew S. Brenner, and Stephen N. Zack, Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, Miami, Florida; Laura W. Brill and Nicholas Daum, Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.
Thaddeus H. Stauber (argued), Jessica N. Walker, and Sarah Erickson Andre, Nixon Peabody LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.
Martin M. Ellison and Mary-Christine Sungaila, Haynes and Boone LLP, Costa Mesa, California, for Amicus Curiae Bet Tzedek Legal Services.
Kathleen Vermazen Radez, Associate Deputy Solicitor General; Joshua A. Klein, Deputy Solicitor General; Edward C. DuMont, Solicitor General; Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California; for Amicus Curiae State of California.
Stanley W. Levy, Benjamin G. Shatz, Christie P. Bahna, Connie Lam and Sarah E. Gettings, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP, Los Angeles, California; Michael Bazyler, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University, Orange, California; for Amicus Curiae The 1939 Society.
Daragh M. Brehony and Bernardo M. Cremades Roman, B. Cremades & Asociados, Madrid, Spain, for Amici Curiae Comunidad Judia de Madrid and Federacien de Comunidades Judias de Espana.
Kelly L. Perigoe and Jeanne A. Fugate, Caldwell Leslie & Proctor PC, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae Jose Luis de Castro.
Jackson Herndon, Kelly A. Bonner, and Owen C. Pell, White & Case LLP, New York, New York; Agnes Peresztegi, Soffer Avocats, Paris, France; for Amicus Curiae Commission for Art Recovery.
Before: Consuelo M. Callahan, Carlos T. Bea, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
OPINION
BEA, Circuit Judge, with whom Judge Callahan concurs. Judge Ikuta concurs except as to Sections III.C.1.iii.b and III.C.1.iv:
In 1939 Germany, as part of the "Aryanization" of the property of German Jews, Lilly Neubauer ("Lilly")1 was forced to "sell" a painting by Camille Pissarro (the "Painting")...
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