Welcome back to The Rainmaker, a private email about money, power, fame, and most of all, the law. In this week’s edition, why two Supreme Court justices were fighting over the Andy Warhol copyright ruling. Plus, Bob Woodward, Elizabeth Holmes, Tiger Woods, Ron DeSantis, Rachael Rollins, Disney, TikTok, and the lawyer who may have cost Les Moonves his CBS severance. Finally, an ice cream treat.
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Happy Monday, I’m Eriq Gardner.
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In this week’s edition, why two Supreme Court justices were fighting over the Andy Warhol copyright ruling. Plus, Bob Woodward, Elizabeth Holmes, Tiger Woods, Ron DeSantis, Rachael Rollins, Disney, TikTok, and the lawyer who may have cost Les Moonves his CBS severance. Finally, an ice cream treat.
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The Warhol Diaries: Kagan v. Sotomayor
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Inside the titanic legal clash and Latinate trash-talk behind one of the most consequential cases to rock the art world, and Hollywood, in a generation.
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Modern art has always led to arguments over meaning and value—some might even say that’s the point—but who would have guessed that a fight over Andy Warhol would see two of the Supreme Court’s most liberal justices insulting each other in Latin? Alas, that happened last week in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith, when Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan stopped just short of declaring pistols at noon in a case that will influence the next few decades of creative expression in Hollywood and the arts. (Read the whole thing here, including Kagan’s second footnote where she asks the reader to measure Sotomayor’s “ratio of reasoning to ipse dixit,” which is SCOTUS-speak for...
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