spoliation

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Tate director Maria Balshaw said it was "a profound privilege to help reunite this work with its rightful heirs" and that she was "delighted to see the spoliation process working successfully to make this happen".

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2025

“The City’s conduct cannot be excused as ‘imperfect document management;’ ... its ‘explanation’ for its admitted spoliation is unconvincing to say the least.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024

The phone’s data was then wiped, city officials have acknowledged, according to Marigold’s April 18 spoliation motion.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022

And as museums and governments also reckon with demands to repatriate artifacts removed from former colonies, the legal precedents concerning Nazi spoliation have global significance.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2021

But the application of any such rule now to roads already in operation would be spoliation pure and simple—spoliation as flagrant as any ever proposed by Karl Marx or Ben.

From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.