Polish Treasury presents arguments for rejecting Jewish restitution lawsuit

Lawyers from White&Case, representing Poland at a court in New York City, yesterday presented arguments to reject the lawsuit of 11 Jews demanding that the Treasury return property seized from them after World War II. The lawyers for Poland claim that according to international law, no independent country can be subject to litigation in another country. They also pointed out that Poland has already paid compensation to US citizens based on the treaty of 1960. Moreover, a similar lawsuit was already dismissed in a Chicago court last year. Their opponents argued that the dismissal resulted from errors made by the plaintiffs. In their opinion, Poland broke international law by discriminating against them as Jews and this justifies litigation in a foreign court. (Zycie, p.10) M.K.