Pathetic all around: https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/elena-kagan-sonia-sotomayor-trade-jabs-in-andy-warhol-case/
A dog fight.
Sounds like a judicial bitchslapping to me
This kind of garbage is why SCOTUS is “too busy” to see 1st and 2nd amendment cases???
They should both just shut up, and go make sandwiches for Justice Thomas.
I’ll buy the mud...
Interesting grouping.
Wonder if Warhol would have been in favor of mutilating children’s sex organs?
The country is going to hell, they won’t take important cases but this is what they quibble about? Some stupid copyright case involving a guy who’s been dead for 36 years? Bunch of fools.
Could Campbell’s Soup sue the Warhol estate?
Good Lord - Kagan and Roberts are RETARDS.
So basically - Goldsmith photographed Prince back in 1981 and, back in 1981, Andy Warhol paid her $10k to use the photograph as the basis for a painting to be published, one time, in another magazine.
Almost 40 years later, after Prince died, Conde Nast asked the Warhol foundation to reprint the painting and paid the Warhol foundation for its use. Neither Conde Nast nor AWF consulted Goldsmith for permission to do so.
Kagan AND ROBERTS here claim that the painting was an original work and thus no need to pay Goldsmith anymore.
EXCEPT that’s not what the original contract stated - Warhol paid for a ONE TIME license for ONE publication and Kagan and Roberts basically wave that away because... “art”.
It’s BS and both of these, so-called, judges obviously have no understanding of law and should RESIGN IMMEDIATELY.
Sotomayor has shown some shocking independence lately. Good on her.
5 unelected, unaccountable megalomaniacs collude together to decide the most pressing issues of the day with no input whatsoever from the voters or their representatives. In a country of 350 million, we have 5 people deciding the law, and creating law from the bench. That is not a democracy and it is not a republic folks. It is not what the Founders intended.
Congress passes a law banning fag marriage and the President signs it? TOO BAD! FAGGOTT ANTHONY KENNEDY SAYS YOU GET FAG MARRIAGE ANYWAY!
Just one example of how insane this system is.
Interesting. So, it looks like a 7-2 decision, with Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Sotomayor, and Jackson in the majority and Kagan and Roberts in the minority.
Ladies, ladies, ladies.
Nobody really wants to see Kagan and Sotomayor mud wrestle.
(Justice Barrett, maybe.)
I wonder if the roots of this rift have anything to do with the Roe v Wade leak…?