BROADCASTS.com

In the third episode of S&C\u2019s Supreme Court Business Review series, hosts Judd Littleton and Julia Malkina are joined by Sharon Cohen Levin, former head of the Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Unit in the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of New York, to discuss the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision in Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp.\n\xa0\nThe case considered whether an exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act allowed the heirs of a group of Jewish art dealers to bring a lawsuit against Germany in U.S. federal court based on the Nazi regime\u2019s expropriation of German medieval relics. The Court held that the heirs\u2019 claim did not fall within the FSIA\u2019s expropriation exception and therefore was barred by sovereign immunity.\n\xa0\nSharon shares the implications of this decision for future FSIA litigants, including heirs of Holocaust victims and victims of other genocides seeking to recover property taken by foreign governments.\n\xa0\nVisit us at Sullcrom.com