[CPProt.net] FW: U.S. v. One Oil Painting Entitled ³Femme en blanc² by Pablo Picasso.

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From: E. Randol Schoenberg [mailto:randols at bslaw.net] 
Sent: 02 April 2005 02:16
To: E. Randol Schoenberg
Subject: U.S. v. One Oil Painting Entitled ³Femme en blanc² by Pablo
Picasso. 


No April Fools, we received this afternoon a copy of United States District
Judge Florence-Marie Cooper’s March 31, 2005 Order Denying Claimant’s Motion
to Dismiss Complaint for Forfeiture and Order Denying Claimant’s Motion to
Transfer; Order Denying Motion to Dismiss Cross-Complaint of Thomas
Bennigson.  A copy is available for download at
http://www.bslaw.net/050331.pdf.  In the opinion, Judge Cooper confirms that
she has jurisdiction to resolve the dispute concerning ownership of the
Picasso painting.

Randol Schoenberg

E. Randol Schoenberg
Burris & Schoenberg, LLP
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