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United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Argued September 8, 2025 Decided January 23, 2026 No. 24-7045 DAVID L. DE CSEPEL, ET AL., APPELLANTS v. REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY, A FOREIGN STATE, ET AL., APPELLEES Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (No. 1

RANDOLPH, Senior Circuit Judge, concurring in part and dissenting from part II.B.2: The majority decides that the Republic of Hungary is immune from the jurisdiction of the federal courts in this case. I disagree. Part II.B.2 of the majority’s opinion transforms the governing jurisdictional statute to mean the opposite of what it says. That distortion of th

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL. TATEL, Circuit Judge: As part of the wholesale plunder of Jewish property carried out during the Holocaust, the Hungarian government, acting in collaboration with Nazi Germany, confiscated the “Herzog Collection”—one of Europe’s largest and finest private art collections. Plaintiffs,' descendants of the Co

MEMORANDUM OPINION ELLEN SEGAL HUVELLE, United States District Judge Defendants the Republic of Hungary, the Hungarian National Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Applied Arts, and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics have moved, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1), to dismiss this case for want of subject matter

MEMORANDUM OPINION ELLEN SEGAL HUVELLE, United States District Judge Defendants the Republic of Hungary, the Hungarian National Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Applied Arts, and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics have moved, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1), to dismiss this case for want o

MEMORANDUM OPINION ELLEN SEGAL HUVELLE, District Judge. Plaintiffs David L. de Csepel, Angela Maria Herzog, and Julia Alice Herzog are descendants of Baron Mór Lipót Herzog, a Jewish Hungarian collector of art who amassed a collection of more than two thousand paintings, sculptures, and other artwork prior to his death in 1934. Plaintiffs alleg

Motion of Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Motion of AJC, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied.Justice KAVANAUGH took no part in the consideration or decision of these motions and this petition.

The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DAVID L. de CSEPEL et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 10-1261 (JDB) REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Before the Court is defendants’ motion to dismiss or, in the alternative, for summary judgment on plaintiffs’ claims re

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DAVID L. de CSEPEL et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 10-1261 (JDB) REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION This case involves the Court’s power to adjudicate “a family’s decades-long effort to recover a valuable art collection tha

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DAVID L. de CSEPEL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 10-1261 (JDB) HUNGARY, et al., Defendants. ORDER This case involves a group of family members, all descendants of renowned art collector Baron Mór Lipót Herzog, who clai

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) DAVID L. de CSEPEL, et al., ) ) ) Plaintiffs, ) vs. )

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Argued April 18, 2023 Decided August 8, 2023 No. 22-7010 ROSALIE SIMON, ET AL., APPELLEES v. REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY AND MAGYAR ALLAMVASUTAK ZRT., (MAV ZRT.), APPELLANTS Consolidated with 22-7013, 22-7112 Appeals from the United States Dist

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Argued October 7, 2021 Decided March 8, 2022 No. 20-7047 DAVID L. DE CSEPEL, ET AL., APPELLEES v. REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY, A FOREIGN STATE, ET AL., APPELLANTS Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (No. 1:10-c

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ROSALIE SIMON, et al., Individually, for themselves and for all others similarly situated, Civil Action No. 10-1770 (BAH) Plaintiffs, Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell v. REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY, et al.,

MEMORANDUM OPINION BERYL A. HOWELL, Chief Judge The named plaintiffs in this proposed class action, Rosalie Simon, Helen Herman, Charlotte Weiss, Helena Weksberg, Rose Miller, Tzvi Zelikovitch, Magda Ko-polovich Bar-Or, Zehava (Olga) Friedman, Yitzhak Pressburger, Alexander Speiser, Ze-ev Tibi Ram, Vera Deutsch Danos, Ella Feuerstein Schlanger, and Moshe Pe

Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge Katsas. Millett, Circuit Judge: "Nowhere was the Holocaust executed with such speed and ferocity as it was in Hungary." Simon v. Republic of Hungary , 812 F.3d 127 , 133 (D

MEMORANDUM OPINION BERYL A. HOWELL, United States District Judge In the dark chapter of history that is World War II, Winston Churchill called the shipment of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to the Nazi death camps in Poland and Germany “probably the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the history of the world.” First Am.

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Argued March 10, 2015 Decided January 29, 2016 No. 14-7082 ROSALIE SIMON, ET AL., APPELLANTS v. REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY, ET AL., APPELLEES Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (No. 1:10-cv-0177

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Argued January 25, 2021 Decided July 27, 2021 No. 20-7017 LUSIK USOYAN, ET AL., APPELLEES v. REPUBLIC OF TURKEY, APPELLANT Consolidated with 20-7019 Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia