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Calder v Perls Dismissed as Inadequate

December 26, 2013 by Marion Maneker

The judge didn’t like the Calder heirs’ lawsuit:

Many of the claims in the case amounted to “an incoherent stew of irrelevance and innuendo,” and the evidence failed to show Perls wrongfully sold Calder works without the heirs’ knowledge, Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich said in a decision made public Dec. 24 in New York state court in Manhattan.

“All these allegations are so patently inadequate that the court can only conclude that they were brought solely for the purpose of harassment or embarrassment,” Kornreich said in the ruling, which dismissed the case.

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