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Case Summary
Weinmann Heirs' Claim Against Yale University Art Gallery
Précis
In 2001, Yale University reached a settlement with a claimant who had alleged that a Gustave Courbet painting on display at the Yale University Art Gallery had been taken from his mother by the Nazis in 1938.
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