Mary Christine Sungaila William Feldman

March 11, 2020 | The Recorder

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's decision in Zuckerman v. Metropolitan Museum of Art, which held that the equitable doctrine of laches barred a claim to recover a Holocaust-era artwork, even though that claim was brought within the six-year statute of limitations that Congress enacted through the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act.

By Mary-Christine Sungaila, William Feldman and Marco A. Pulido

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