A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday dealt a severe blow to Holocaust survivors and their families in a long-running lawsuit seeking compensation from Hungary for property confiscated during World War ...

On February 21, 2025, the US Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Republic of Hungary v. Simon, further narrowing the scope of the ...

The court’s decision rebuffs the survivors’ claims that they are entitled to funds from the Hungarian treasury for the government and national railway confiscating their assets during World War II, ...

During the occupation of Hungary by Nazi Germany in World War II, Jews were persecuted ... The US Supreme Court rejected the claim in 2021.

The survivors contended that their claims fell within an exception to the general ... Even if they did not contend that any of the property that Hungary and MAV confiscated during World War II is now ...

The survivors claim Hungary commingled the proceeds of their ... from Jews while carrying out mass extermination during World War II. The dispute turns on technical questions about Hungary ...

A group of Holocaust victims may not sue Hungary in American courts to recover property stolen during World War II because their ... might be able to bring their claims some other way, just ...

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with Hungary on Friday by rejecting a ... national railway confiscating their assets during World War II, which have been liquidated and “comingled” with ...

That decision made it harder for some lawsuits to be tried in U.S. courts over claims that property was taken from Jews during the Nazi era. The justices heard the Hungary case at the same time ...