Stolen painting

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit voted against rehearing, en banc, the question of whether the court should apply California or Spanish law in a lawsuit brought by the heirs of a Jewish woman who say they are entitled to her painting, which was stolen by the Nazis and now hangs in a Madrid museum.

Read the ruling here.

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