Konowaloff v. Metropolitan Museum of Art

How courts have described this case

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• holding Konowaloff had no standing to challenge “any sale or other treatment of the [Cézanne] Painting after 1918”
• holding Konowaloff had no standing to challenge “any sale or other treatment of the [Cézanne] Painting after 1918”
• recognizing government’s seizure of painting as act of state
• applying the act of state doctrine to an official government expropriation decree
• \[T]he lawfulness of the Soviet government's taking of the Painting is precisely what the act of state doctrine bars the United States courts from determining.\
• “[A] court may properly grant a motion to dismiss on the basis of [the act of state doctrine] when its applicability is shown on the face of the complaint.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).