Looted-Art Law Overturned, But Adam And Eve In Limbo

“A federal appeals court today struck down as unconstitutional a 2002 California law giving owners and heirs to artworks looted by the Nazis extra time — until the end of 2010 — to sue for their return.” Left undecided: “Does the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena really own one of the most prized works hanging in its galleries,” or should its Adam and Eve “be handed over to the daughter-in-law of a Jewish art dealer who left the panels in Holland when he fled the invading Germans in 1940?”