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Webinar: Pablo Picasso and the Art of Pleading, Proving and Arguing Foreign Law in U.S. Courts with Judge Loretta Preska

Date(s):
December 15, 2021
Venue:
Online
 
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Description:
Pablo Picasso’s artworks and estate have sparked
controversies requiring U.S. courts to grapple with issues of foreign law. In
de Fontbrune v. Wofsy, 838 F.3d 992 )(9th Cir. 2016) a decision involving a
U.S. enforcement proceeding Picasso’s copyrights, the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals accused other federal circuit courts of “semantic sloppiness” in
requiring parties seeking to apply foreign law to bear the burden of proving
it. The Ninth Circuit looked to Rule 44.1 of the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure (enacted in 1966) which permits a court to consider “any relevant
source” of foreign law and treats the court’s determination of foreign law as a
ruling on a question of law. In Zuckerman v...
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