Despite federal courts having repeatedly ruled that a Spanish museum lawfully obtained an impressionist painting stolen by Nazis in 1939, the Supreme Court handed the descendants of the original owners a huge win Monday,

A 20-year legal odyssey seeking the return of a Nazi-looted painting that once belonged to the German Jewish family of a former La Mesa resident endured its latest twist Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered an appellate court to reconsider the fate of the artwork.

The U.S. Supreme Court has revived a case that could decide the ownership of a French impressionist painting that was once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman