HEIR SEEKS INJUNCTION AGAINST LAWYER IN ART-LOOTING CASE

After winning the return of more than two hundred artworks looted by Nazis, the American heir of a Jewish art collector is seeking an injunction against her lawyer, reports Lawrence Van Gelder for the New York Times. In the Hague on Wednesday, the heir, Marei von Saher, is to seek an injunction to prevent the lawyer, Roelof van Holthe tot Echten, from seizing the paintings in lieu of the $16 million he says he is owed in fees. Von Saher has offered him $1.7 million. She is the heir of Jacques Goudstikker, a leading Amsterdam collector before World War II whose works were taken by the Nazis and later retrieved in part by the Netherlands, which agreed last year after eight years of legal wrangling to return 202 of the paintings. They had been hanging in Dutch museums since the 1950s.