USA – CALIFORNIA Trends and Developments Contributed by: Steve Coopersmith, Ashley Rastegarpour and Philippa Grumbley, The Coopersmith Law Firm, LLP
us grounds, and defendants can be expected to test those limits early. The longer-term question, therefore, is not only wheth - er AB 2867 survives those challenges, but whether it catalyses broader legislative experimentation else - where or prompts courts to recalibrate how they apply conflict principles in persecution-based property claims. In short, AB 2867 is poised to become a bell - wether – both for how Holocaust-era restitution cases are litigated after HEAR’s sunset, and for whether US courts will increasingly be asked to reconcile tradi - tional property doctrines with the distinctive features of Nazi-era dispossession.
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