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UNITED STATES
SCOTUS May Get a Say in the Fate of the Guelph Treasure
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Stiftung
Preussischer Kulturbesitz or SPK), which operates Berlin's
state museums, plans to seek review by the United States Supreme
Court of the issue of U.S. courts' jurisdiction to hear the
case of the 1935 sale of the famed Guelph Treasure by Jewish art
dealers to the Prussian government. The Guelph Treasure is a
collection of 82 pieces of medieval ecclesiastical art originally
housed at Brunswick Cathedral in Braunschweig, Germany. The
Treasure is presently dispersed between private and museum
collections, including the Bode Museum in Berlin. In 2015, the
heirs of the Jewish
