U.S. Court Grants Asset Forfeiture To Return Colonial Paintings to Peru

On February 12, 2009, Judge James Cacheris of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted summary judgement to the U.S. government on an asset forfeiture action brought by the U.S. government on behalf of the Peruvian government, thereby restoring to Peru two colonial paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. The case interestingly pitted the Peruvian against the Bolivian governments...[more]