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10 Lawsuits filed in December 2022 by the heirs of Fritz Grunbaum
June 2022: Final resolution of Reif and Fraenkel v Nagy
16 December 2020: Judgement of the Amsterdam Court in the claim of the Lewenstein heirs for the Kandinsky painting 'Bild mit Hausern' in the Stedelijk Museum
11 July 2019: Estate of Paul and Alice Leffmann files petition for rehearing in case v Metropolitan Museum of Art
9 July 2019: Reif v Nagy Ruling of New York Appeals Court
26 June 2019: Ruling of US Court of Appeals in Zuckerman v Metropolitan Museum of Art
30 April 2019 Ruling of Judge John Walter in the case of Cassirer v Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (TBC)
27 February 2019 Oral argument in the case of Laurel Zuckerman v Metropolitan Museum, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
27 December 2018: Lewenstein heirs serve writ on the Municipality of Amsterdam and the Stedelijk Museum re Kandinsky's ‘Bild mit Häusern’
19 November 2018: Lawsuit filed by heir of Firma D. Katz in South Carolina to recover 143 paintings from the Netherlands
11 September 2019: Ruling of the French Cour de Cassation re Toll vs Bauer
7 September 2018 Claim by the heirs of Paul Westheim against the estate of Charlotte Weidler
30 July 2018: Ruling of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Marei von Saher vs the Norton Simon Museum
27 June 2018 Khochinsky v Republic of Poland
25 May 2018 Zuckerman v. Metropolitan Museum, Appeal to the US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
21 September 2017 Ruling of US District Court Southern District of New York in suit of Oliver Williams et al (heirs of Margarete Moll) v National Gallery of Art London
31 March 2017: The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rules against the German motion to dismiss the claim in the US courts for the Guelph Treasure
3 March 2017 Heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein-Weyermann, Robert Gotschalk Lewenstein and Wilhelmine Helena Lewenstein v Bayerische Landesbank
27 February 2017 Laurel Zuckerman v Metropolitan Museum, Metropolitan Museum files a brief in further support of its motion to dismiss the amended complaint of Laurel Zuckerman re Picasso's The Actor
21 January 2017 Laurel Zuckerman v the Metropolitan Museum, Memorandum in opposition to defendant's motion to dismiss
21 December 2016 Guelph Treasure (Welfenschatz), Letter to the court re Philipp et al v Federal Republic of Germany et al
5 December 2016: Flechtheim heirs file suit in USA for recovery of eight paintings in Bavaria
5 November 2016 Guelph Treasure, Plaintiffs file opposition to the SPK and Federal Republic of Germany's motion to dismiss the claim for restitution of the Guelph Treasure
24 October 2016 Fritz Grunbaum v Richard Nagy, Dismissal of defendant's motion to dismiss
30 September 2016 Laurel Zuckerman as administrator of the estate of Alice Leffmann v the Metropolitan Museum of Art
16 November 2015 Heirs of Fritz Grunbaum vs Richard Nagy
29 October 2015 Guelph Treasure (Welfenschatz), Motion to Dismiss the Claim for Restitution of the Guelph Treasure
2 April 2015 Marei von Saher -v- Norton Simon Museum of Art At Pasadena, et al
Complaint Philipp and Stiebel v Federal Republic of Germany and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz 23 February 2015
19 February 2013: Press Release Bundesverwaltungsgericht regarding case seeking to delete registration of looted artworks at www.lostart.de
19 April 2013 US Court of Appeals Rules Herzog Case Against Hungary Can Proceed in US
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Claims 2008-2009
19 February 2013: Press Release Bundesverwaltungsgericht (German Federal Administrative Court) regarding a case seeking to delete registration of looted artworks at www.lostart.de
Suit filed by heir of German art critic and publisher Paul Westheim against heirs of Charlotte Weidler 25 January 2013
Bakalar v Vavra Ruling of US Court of Appeals Second Circuit 12 October 2012
Judgement of the Bundesgerichtshof (German Supreme Court) in the case of the Hans Sachs Poster Collection 24 April 2012
27 June 2011 Von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena: Petition for certiorari denied
Bakalar v Vavra Ruling of US Court of Appeals Second Circuit 2 September 2010
Dunbar v Seger-Thomschitz: Decision of the US Court of Appeal for the Fifth Ciruit 20 August 2010
US Appeal Court Ruling Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation 12 August 2010
Hungary on Trial: Herzog Collection - Lawsuit filed against Hungary July 2010
Amicus Brief filed in Grosz v Museum of Modern Art, New York, 22 June 2010
Decision of the Kammergericht in the case of the Hans Sachs Poster Collection issued 18 February 2010
MoMA vs Grosz Court Judgement 6 January 2010
USA v. Portrait of Wally, A Painting by Egon Schiele: Court Judgement 30 September 2009
Cassirer v Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Court Judgement 8 September 2009
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