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HOLOCAUST EXPROPRIATED ART RECOVERY ACT CONTROLS THE APPLICABLE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN AN ACTION SEEKING RECOVERY OF A PAINTING CONFISCATED DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION OF FRANCE (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department determined the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 (HEAR) controlled an action in New York making a claim to a painting that was confiscated during the German occupation of France in 1944. Under HEAR the action was timely commenced:

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HEAR supplants the statute of limitations provisions otherwise applicable to civil claims such as these (see Pub L 114-308, § 5[a]). Under HEAR, the applicable statute of limitations is six years from the date of “actual discovery” of “the identity and location of the artwork” and “a possessory interest of the claimant in the artwork” (id.). We reject defendants’ argument that HEAR can be displaced by a choice-of-law analysis.

Under section 5(c) of HEAR, for purposes of starting the running of the six-year statute of limitations provided by section 5(a), a preexisting claim covered by HEAR is “deemed to have been actually discovered on the date of enactment of [HEAR].” However, section 5(c) is made subject to the exception provided in section 5(e), which, as here relevant, provides that HEAR does not save a preexisting claim that was “barred on the day before the date of enactment of [HEAR] by a Federal or State statute of limitations” where “not less than 6 years have passed from the date [the] claimant . . . acquired such knowledge and during which time the civil claim or cause of action was not barred by a Federal or State statute of limitations.” Accordingly, to establish that HEAR does not save the subject claim, defendants were required to show that [plaintiff] discovered the claim on or before December 15, 2010 (six years before the day before the date of HEAR’s enactment). This they have failed to do. Maestracci v Helly Nahmad Gallery, Inc., 2017 NY Slip Op 07676, First Dept 11-2-17

 

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