A New York federal judge has tossed out a legal malpractice suit arising from competing Holocaust restitution claims. Nieces and nephews of a Jewish publisher and art collector and his wife, who both died in 1930s Germany, sued their ex-lawyer, claiming his errors caused them to have to share restored property and funds with another claimant. But the judge granted summary judgment to the lawyer, finding that the relevant German restitution law would not have permitted the nieces and nephews a full recovery.
October 16, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A Manhattan federal judge has thrown out a legal malpractice suit arising out of competing Holocaust restitution claims.
In 2005, a group of nieces and nephews of Jewish publisher and art collector Gustav Kirstein and his wife Clara, both of whom died in Germany in the 1930s, sued their former lawyer, New York’s David J. Rowland, claiming his mistakes caused them to have to share restored property and funds with another claimant.
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