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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The San Diego Union-Tribune
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case involving a La Mesa, California, family’s 20-year effort to reclaim a French Impressionist painting looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust and now hanging in a Spanish museum. Camille Pissarro’s 1897 work, “Rue Saint-Honoré, Afternoon Effect,” is worth by some estimates more than $30 million. In granting a petition filed by the Cassirer family, the court said it will resolve a jurisdictional issue that has divided lower appellate panels: Does federal or state law apply in suits filed against foreign entities? Claude Cassirer, a retired po…