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New Federal Law Helps Victims of Nazi-Confiscated Art
The HEAR Act of 2025 creates a sea change in restitution litigation. American soldiers carry art looted by the Nazis from conquered countries. On April 13, 2024, President Trump signed the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025 (the HEAR Act of 2025) into law.
Congress Advances Updates to the HEAR Act of 2016
In December 2025, the Senate unanimously passed the HEAR Act of 2025, a bill intended to clarify the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 (the HEAR Act). In 2016, President Obama signed the HEAR Act, which imposed a nationwide, 6-year statute of limitations for cases involving Nazi-confiscated art.1 The 6-year clock begins to run when a claimant acquires “actual knowledge” of the artwork’s identity and location and of their possessory interest in it.
Kate W. Aufses
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Prop 1: Equal Rights on the Ballot
Prop 1: Equal Rights on the Ballot On Tuesday, November 5, New Yorkers will have a chance to vote on a ballot measure known as Prop 1, which will enshrine equal rights in the New York state constitution.
Post-Dobbs, the Supreme Court Reenters the Abortion Debate
Almost a year and a half after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the decades-long constitutional right to abortion, SCOTUS has reentered the abortion debate by agreeing to review a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA that would make mifepristone less accessible. Mifepristone is one of the two pills commonly used in a medication abortion – currently the most common method of abortion in the United States.
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