The case involving a Pissarro is being sent back to federal court in California for review in light of a new state law, in a dispute between heirs and a Spanish museum.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on March 10 to revive a claim by a family over an heirloom, an impressionist painting that had been stolen from their ancestors by the Nazis during World War II. The artwork currently hangs in a Spanish museum, and the Cassirer family has been trying to reclaim it for several decades.

An earlier version of this article referred the artist Camille Pissarro as Claude.The Supreme Court on Monday revived a family's claim to recover a painting that had been hung in a Berlin apartment in 1939 and was stolen by the Nazis.