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New York's attorney general said in a lawsuit that the auction house had helped collectors avoid tax payments on art purchases. Sotheby's will pay New York State $6.25 million to [...]

New York’s attorney general said in a lawsuit that the auction house had helped collectors avoid tax payments on art purchases. Sotheby’s will pay New York State $6.25 million to [...]

Byline: The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) A Florida man's lawsuit has temporarily stopped Shohei Ohtani's 50th home run ball from being sold at auction after saying it was stolen from [...]

The family sued a Miami gallery, accusing it of going to elaborate lengths to pass off forged artworks as authentic Andy Warhols; the art dealer denied the allegations. The first [...]

Byline: Sheldon Fox, Kathleen Ditton, Chantal Cook (WSVN) -- Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) -- A judge overseeing a Broward County teen's lawsuit against a [...]

While waiting for a court to decide whether Nelson Mandela's belongings are considered national heritage, Guernsey's said it had become clear that a sale would be ''difficult.'' The New York [...]

Byline: Staff and agencies A US federal jury has ruled in favour of Sotheby's at a trial in which the Russian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of [...]

Dmitry Rybolovlev took the stand to accuse Sotheby's of aiding a Swiss art dealer who he says tricked him into overspending by tens of millions on art. As the owner [...]

Byline: LARRY NEUMEISTER; ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- Sotheby's defended itself at a trial this week against accusations that it helped defraud a Russian oligarch out of tens of millions [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — A Russian billionaire art collector lost a legal fight with Sotheby’s on Tuesday, when a U.S. jury sided with the auction house in a lawsuit over [...]

Byline: Beatrice Forman PHILADELPHIA Former 'Survivor' contestant Gervase Peterson is suing Goldin Auctions the sports memorabilia juggernaut helmed by Ken Goldin and Netflix over who is the true creator of [...]

The legal battle over ''Quantum'' is part of a larger effort to define rules of ownership for digital artworks. A federal court last Friday dismissed a lawsuit that questioned the [...]

Byline: ADAM SCHRADER A lawsuit filed against one of the two inventors of the world's first non-fungible token was dismissed by a federal judge this week. Kevin McCoy, the artist [...]

Byline: Sonia Moghe, CNN (CNN) -- Three men accused of having stolen and attempting to sell handwritten notes and lyrics by the Eagles' Don Henley have been indicted on multiple [...]

Byline: Sonia Moghe, CNN (CNN) -- Three men accused of having stolen and attempting to sell handwritten notes and lyrics by the Eagles' Don Henley have been indicted on multiple [...]

Byline: Kevin Oklobzija The grandchildren of James 'Wickey' McAvoy, the Rochester native who played Major League Baseball more than a century ago, say an auction house and/or memorabilia authentication company [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR, Staff Lead A Toronto artist has finally got satisfaction in a forgery case he has been fighting for seven years. Painter Marco Sassone has collected on an [...]

A bench trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan concerns an ancient idol held by Christie's. The marble idol was carved as many as 6,000 years ago, a 9-inch-tall female [...]

July 26, 2021 - In a decisive victory for longtime client Phillips Auctioneers, Hughes Hubbard defeated a lawsuit brought by a China-based art collector alleging that the eminent auction house [...]

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt joined a multistate coalition of 10 states in filing a lawsuit against Google for multiple alleged violations of federal and state antitrust laws, including anticompetitive [...]

The owner of a local auction firm and a financial service practitioner have been released on a 100,000 bail bond each after denying money laundering charges in court this morning. [...]

PHOENIX, AZ -- The following information was released by the office of the Arizona Attorney General: Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced his office filed a Consumer Fraud lawsuit alleging that [...]

Byline: Julia Gonzales New York's attorney general said on Friday she has sued auction house Sotheby's for allegedly defrauding the state out of millions of dollars in unpaid sales taxes. [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by the office of the New York Attorney General: Sotheby's Helped Wealthy Clients Evade Taxes to Boost its Own Sales NEW [...]

New York City, NY -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York: Scheme Targeted Works by Matisse, Picasso, and [...]

ATLANTA -- The following information was released by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Memorabilia and Auction Company Fired Employee Because of Mental Disabilities, Federal Agency Charged ATLANTA - Heritage [...]

The following are summaries of news reports pertaining to art law and art markets, organized by geographic regions for your browsing convenience. Wilson Elser's Art Law practice team will transition [...]

The following are summaries of news reports (hyperlinked below) pertaining to art law and art markets, separated by geographic regions for your browsing convenience. Wilson Elser's Art Law practice team [...]

''This is a case about a broken promise, a family disagreement, and an art masterpiece that, if this Court does not step in now to save it, will be lost [...]

Following the recent decision by the English Court of Appeal in SFO v ENRC (subject of this Legal Update) in relation to principles governing litigation privilege, the English High Court [...]

Sotheby's v Mark Weiss Ltd: Judge rules that litigation privilege cannot be claimedThe claimant sought to claim litigation privilege in respect of correspondence passing between it and two expert advisers. [...]

The High Court has found that correspondence with experts was not subject to litigation privilege as it was prepared for two purposes, only one of which was for contemplated litigation, [...]

On July 2, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ('FERC') issued an Order denying ISO-NE's request to waive certain tariff provisions which would have permitted cost-of-service agreements for the continued operation [...]

Byline: Elizabeth G. Acevedo 'This action arises from a greedy, malevolent, fraudulent, bad-faith and (unfortunately) successful scheme to financially devastate the Estate [of Dolores O. Neumann] and, indirectly, Belinda [Neumann-Donnelly], [...]

A significant new ruling out of the Southern District of New York has ignited the debate over the extraterritorial scope of 28 U.S.C. § 1782. District Judge Jesse Furman on [...]

Mossgreen appeal dismissed by Federal Court The attempt by the administrators of Mossgreen Pty Ltd, a high-profile auction house whose central business was to sell items at auction on a [...]