NY court revives suit over Nazi stolen art at Oklahoma Univ.
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A federal appeals court has given new life to a Holocaust survivor's claim that the University of Oklahoma is unjustly holding a Camille Pissarro painting that the Nazis stole from her father during World War II.
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan has directed a lower-court judge to consider whether the lawsuit she threw out should be transferred to Oklahoma, saying she has authority to do so. The school and University President David Boren are defendants in the lawsuit brought in 2013 by 75-year-old Holocaust survivor Leone Meyer, who lives in Paris. She maintained she is entitled to Pissarro's 1886 "Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep" because it belonged to her father when it was taken by the Nazis as German forces occupied France. Her father, Raoul Mayer, died in 1970.
