Posted on 03/20/2021 3:28:17 AM PDT by EBH
The US Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Nazi-bought Guelph Treasure will not return to its Jewish heirs. The decision is in line with the court’s traditional tendency to avoid a situation where foreign plaintiffs bring cases to US courts even if they have little connection to the US, according to a New York Law Journal report.
The ruling was made despite the fact that the Jewish owners of the medieval collection, who bought it in 1929, sold it to Nazi agents of Hermann Göring in 1935 during a time when they were under a lot of pressure to make such a sale due to the repercussions of a refusal. The 42 pieces of the collection were declared a national cultural treasure by the modern German state in 2015, meaning that they could not be taken out of the country without official government approval.
In previous discussions, German courts accepted the claim that the sum paid by the agents, 4.25 million Reichsmarks ($1.7m), was the market price at the time for such a collection, having a relative inflated worth of $32.6m today.
The sold items were not in Germany in 1935, meaning that the Nazis could not order the Jewish owners to hand them over, and instead negotiated the sale in the Netherlands.
However, the heirs to the Jewish owners argued otherwise and sued the German state in a US court under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), claiming the sum represented only 35% of the real value.
The Supreme Court ruled that the act should be viewed as intended for cases where a state took the property of another state or when a state takes the assets of foreign nationals, not cases when a state takes assets from individuals who are its own citizens.
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Yea much like paying reparations to blacks today for slavery yesterday. If it were black owned treasure that the Nazis confiscated it would have already been done
Maybe their Jordans?
Photos of more objects: https://www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/newsroom/dossiers-and-news/all-dossiers/dossier-the-guelph-treasure/what-is-the-guelph-treasure.html?L=1
Did the Nazi regime even consider Jews as German citizens?
Wheels, grills, and Yeezys...
Correct ruling. The case had NO connection with the US that would justify US involvement.
Malta, Vatican, and Nazis and baby rapers in SCOTUS
will decide all US “decisions” for their foreign masters
WHO TOOK the treasure initially by force
(the way SCOTUS planned the MURDER of J.Scalia and let
the terror, and sedition RIP).
To anybody of any race who hates America and demands reparations I'd say: "Here's your mud hut and a one way ticket back to Africa (or other country of origin). There, your repaired!"
Hey Roberts gets one right!
Ok, I cannot parse that at all.
Reporting to the REAL BOSS.
Our court, like virtually all the rest of our government, is no longer respectable. Trump tried to save the court, but it appears that our RINO-ustices are settling into a life of decisions that we will not agree with.
Oh well, we’ll take care of that during Bastille II.
Israel might try to help (if they survive Biden) getting some liberal US Jews to STFU and try being logical for a change.
Subject matter jurisdiction. Gotta have it. This is a sad but quite appropriate case to rule that SMJ is just not there.
Wow the Supreme Court can rule on something that happened seventy years ago, but can’t rule on a current case brought by a President because of lack of standing.......go figure.
I’m not clear on how this is a matter for US courts?
The Nazi’s purchased these items, presumably at a coerced sale and likely discount, from the rightful owners. In the Netherlands
How is this any different than what the City of New London CT did to Susette Kelo?
Since the actor in this whole affair are long dead, I don’t see how a US court can act on a dispute over ownership of the items.
That looks “Jewish.”
That is what one calls a lost cause.
The heirs lacked "standing"???
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