Pryor Cashman Partner William Charron, Co-Chair of the firm’s Art Law Group, was quoted in The Art Newspaper regarding the proposed Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025. The bill aims to eliminate legal defenses like laches and acquisitive prescription in Nazi-loot cases.

While Bill supports the bill’s goal of facilitating art restitution, he cautioned that such cases often involve complex issues and missing evidence.

“Courts recognise the loss of necessary evidence as ‘undue prejudice’ in art restitution cases. The original Hear Act did not abolish the laches defence. The proposed new Hear Act should not do so either, in my opinion.”

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