Rosner v. United States

In 1944, Hungary ordered its Jewish population to surrender gold and valuables, which were loaded onto the so-called Gold Train and seized by the U.S. Army in Austria in 1945. A class of Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivors and descendants (plaintiffs) sued the United States (defendant), alleging the government determined in 1946 that owners couldn't be identified even though the property was kept in labeled, identifiable boxes, and that officials sold or requisitioned the contents and looted military storage -- facts the plaintiffs only learned when the government released a report in 1999. The government moved to dismiss as untimely, among other grounds.