News & Issues http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org daily 1 2007-11-14T16:18:33Z Spirits cannot rest so far from home http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/spirits-cannot-rest-so-far-from-home Bureaucracy and indifference make for slow going in repatriating Aboriginal remains from overseas institutions, writes Tim Elliott. No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-13T14:47:50Z News Item Nazi-Looted Corot Painting to Be Sold by Sotheby’s (Update1) http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/nazi-looted-corot-painting-to-be-sold-by-sotheby2019s-update1 Sotheby’s will offer a painting by the French artist Jean Baptiste Camille Corot in an auction of 19th-century art after a Dutch museum returned the work to the heirs of a Jewish banker No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-13T02:17:39Z News Item The Inside Man http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/the-inside-man The country’s public lands are underprotected, underfunded, and increasingly vulnerable. This special agent works to protect them. No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-11T13:23:56Z News Item U.S. returns ancient sarcophagus to Egypt at National Geographic Society http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/u-s-returns-ancient-sarcophagus-to-egypt-at-national-geographic-society 3,000-year-old antiquity was found at Miami airport and traced to Spanish gallery No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-10T22:13:54Z News Item Suicides complicate Native American artifact looting case http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/suicides-complicate-native-american-artifact-looting-case FBI informant Ted Gardiner's death last week is the third. Critics say the federal government has been overzealous in its prosecutions and that his videotaped testimony should not be allowed. No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-10T18:27:00Z News Item Odyssey Marine Exploration Announces 2009 Financial Results http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/odyssey-marine-exploration-announces-2009-financial-results TAMPA, Fla., March 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Odyssey Marine Exploration (Nasdaq:OMEX), pioneers in the field of deep-ocean shipwreck exploration, today reported full year 2009 financial results. No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-10T03:35:29Z News Item Peru lifts some Machu Picchu claims against Yale http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/peru-lifts-some-machu-picchu-claims-against-yale NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Peru has voluntarily agreed to withdraw fraud and conspiracy allegations it made against Yale University in a lawsuit seeking the return of Inca artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago. No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-09T20:33:02Z News Item Artifact cases proceed despite source's death http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/artifact-cases-proceed-despite-sources-death Probe » Attorneys say it won't break new legal ground to proceed. No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-09T13:46:14Z News Item United States and El Salvador Extend Agreement to Protect Archaeological Heritage of El Salvador http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/united-states-and-el-salvador-extend-agreement-to-protect-archaeological-heritage-of-el-salvador The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the extension of the Memorandum of Understanding Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of El Salvador Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Certain Categories of Archaeological Material from the Pre-Hispanic Cultures of the Republic of El Salvador. No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-08T23:24:10Z News Item The Source': The inside story of the key player in feds' Indian artifacts case http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/the-source-the-inside-story-of-the-key-player-in-feds-indian-artifacts-case Ted Gardiner says he saw a wrong that needed righting; he feared for his life, then took it himself. No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-05T16:38:46Z News Item Summer Internship with LCCHP http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/lcchp-organizational-news/summer-internship-with-lcchp No publisher admin 2010-03-05T16:24:52Z News Item dant engraved with image of Peter the Great returned to Russian authorities http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/dant-engraved-with-image-of-peter-the-great-returned-to-russian-authorities Artifact reported stolen from Hermitage collection was offered for sale in Seattle No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-04T23:30:53Z News Item New Executive Director to Lead the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP) http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/lcchp-organizational-news/new-executive-director-to-lead-the-lawyers2019-committee-for-culturalheritage-preservation-lcchp No publisher admin 2010-03-04T19:31:26Z News Item Babylonian Artifact Found by Chicago CBP Returned to Iraq http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/babylonian-artifact-found-by-chicago-cbp-returned-to-iraq Chicago – An ancient Babylonian artifact found by Chicago Customs and Border Protection officers at the International Mail Branch near O’Hare Airport was returned, along with additional cultural properties, to the Ambassador of Iraq to the United States, Samir Sumaida’ie, at an Iraqi Embassy ceremony in Washington, D.C. on February 25. No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-03T22:56:36Z News Item US vows to return shipment of looted Khmer antiquities http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/news-issues/news-issues-in-cultural-heritage/us-vows-to-return-shipment-of-looted-khmer-antiquities AMERICAN authorities plan to repatriate a “very large” shipment of cultural artefacts plundered from temples in the Kingdom, a senior US law enforcement official said Tuesday. No publisher gnurkin 2010-03-03T16:31:05Z News Item