Appeals Court Upholds Ruling In Washington Armenian Genocide Museum

APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS RULING IN WASHINGTON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM CASE

Published: Thursday July 17, 2014

The former National Bank of Washington and adjacent properties in
downtown Washington. Courtesy image

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MINNEAPOLIS – In a July 15 ruling U.S. Court of Appeals upheld
an earlier federal court’s decision that returned a series of
Washington properties to the Cafesjian Family Foundation. The appeal
was launched by the Armenian Assembly of America almost three years
ago, in September 2011.

The panel that included Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland, Circuit
Judge Robert L. Wilkins and Senior Circuit Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg
considered the parties’ arguments and ruled to affirm judgments of the
District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued in January and May
2011. The judges concluded their 37-page opinion by expressing hope
that their decision could “serve as the last word on this dispute’s
protracted journey through the courts.”

“We are both happy and relieved that this lengthy legal process has
finally come to an end,” said Kathleen Cafesjian Baradaran, chair of
the Cafesjian Family Foundation. “I just wish my father was alive to
see this day.”

Mr. Cafesjian passed away in September 2013.