David Boies participated remotely for his first U.S. Supreme Court argument in nearly a decade, after testing positive for Covid-19 ahead of the hearing.
The Boies Schiller Flexner head, who argued for the Democratic nominee in 2000’s Bush v. Gore, represents the Cassirer family’s long-running quest to reclaim a Nazi-looted Pissarro painting from a Spanish museum.
“Can everyone agree that this is a beautiful painting?” Justice Stephen Breyer asked on Tuesday, referring to the 1897 work—Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain—that’s in Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum.
No one contests that.
But the parties dispute what ...
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