A federal appeals court has awarded Yale University a victory in round two over a long-running wrestling match over a Van Gogh painting that is valued at $200 million.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected the arguments that the masterpiece, “The Night Café,” be returned to the family from which it was taken by the Bolshevik government of Russia in 1918. In making its ruling, the court upheld a Connecticut judge’s ruling that the the “act of state” doctrine precluded the claims of French citizen Pierre Konowaloff. The doctrine generally requires U.S. courts to presume the validity and legality of a foreign state’s action with regard to its own nationals within its own borders.
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