The heirs of art dealers whose property was taken in Nazi-era Germany can’t pursue lawsuits seeking compensation from the government of that country in the courts of the United States, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Feb. 3.
The ruling was a victory for the Trump administration, now out of office, which had opposed that legal stance, arguing that the claims for damages should be pursued overseas and that letting the litigation proceed in the United States threatened to entangle the judiciary in sensitive foreign policy questions best left to the executive branch.
