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Jan. 18, 2022, 2:58 PM UTCUpdated: Jan. 18, 2022, 6:37 PM UTC

Boies Argues Remotely at Supreme Court After Positive Test (1)

Jordan S. Rubin
Jordan S. Rubin
Reporter

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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