NEWS UPDATE Holocaust Restitution Case Against Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Actor by Pablo Picasso, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

July 17, 2019 : A petition requesting a rehearing and a rehearing en banc was filed this week with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.   

The press release is reproduced below, with links to the decision of June 26, 2019 and the petition of July 11, 2019.

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Zuckerman v Metropolitan Museum of Art Amended Complaint Case 1:16-cv-07665-LAP Document 8 Filed 11/02/16

Index No. 16-civ-07665 AMENDED COMPLAINT
JURY TRIAL DEMANDED 


 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 


 LAUREL ZUCKERMAN, AS ANCILLARY
ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF ALICE LEFFMANN,
Plaintiff,
vs.
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART,
Defendant.
Case 1:16-cv-07665-LAP Document 8 Filed 11/02/16

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Estate of Alice Leffmann, Plaintiff vs The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Defendant DOWNLOAD AMENDED COMPLAINT 



Brief on Appeal Case 18-0634, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit



Link to Download the Brief on Appeal 18-0634-cv Estate of Alice Leffmann v The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

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Amicus Brief No. 08-0634-cv in support of the claimant’s appellate brief in Zuckerman v. Metropolitan Museum






Amicus brief filed in support of the claimant’s appellate brief in Zuckerman v. Metropolitan Museum, Appeal to the US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit





Brief Amicus Curiae of B'nai B'rith International, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Omer Bartov, Michael Berenbaum, Stuart E. Eizenstat, Richard Falk, Eugene Fisher,Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Peter Hayes, Marcia Sachs Littell, Hubert G. Locke, Wendy Lower, Bruce F. Pauley, Carol Rittner, John K. Roth, Lucille Roussin, William L. Shulman, Stephen Smith, and Alan Steinweis as Amici Curiae, in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant Zuckerman




Link to the Amicus Brief in PDF






UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Case 1:16-cv-07665-LAP Document 17 Filed 01/20/17





Consult or download PDF of

United States District Court Southern District of New York

Laurel Zuckerman as Ancillary 

Adminisratrix of the Estate of Alice Leffmann, Plaintiff,

vs.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Defendant


Memorandum of Law in Opposition to 

Defendant's Motion to Dismiss

  Case 1:16-cv-07665-LAP Document 17 Filed 01/20/17