The case of the missing diamonds

LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge overturned the lower court’s judgment in favor of Sotheby’s, which argued it was not responsible for the vanishing of 45 yellow diamonds worth $4 million. Rather, the jeweler should not have handed the diamonds to a third party without the diamond owner’s consent.

Read the ruling here.

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