The U.S. Supreme Court has revived a case that could decide the ownership of a French impressionist painting that was once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman.

A leading Spanish museum says it's confident U.S. courts will again rule that a valuable French impressionist painting taken from a Jewish family by the Nazis belongs to the museum and not to the family's descendants.

The Supreme Court is keeping alive a California man’s hope of reclaiming a valuable impressionist masterpiece taken from his family by the Nazis and now on display in a Spanish museum.

The Supreme Court has heard arguments from lawyers for a California man and a Spanish museum locked in a dispute over an impressionist masterpiece stolen by the Nazis.

Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest but possibly not the last in a case that has wound through the courts of Spain and the United States for 20 years. Neither Cassirer's heirs nor Spain's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum dispute the painting's early history. Both U.S. District Judge John Walter, in a 2019 ruling, and the appeals court in Tuesday's, criticized the baron and the Spanish foundation for not doing more to discover whether the painting was looted art. Both courts also criticized Spain for not living up to what the courts called moral commitments to return Nazi-looted art. But that is the state of the law," the appeals court said in its ruling.