La forme d’une œuvre, c’est une exposition épatante consacrée à Julien Gracq par la Bibliothèque nationale de France (site Tolbiac, jusqu’au 3 septembre). L’ermite de Saint-Florent-le-Vieil (1910-2007) qui n’aimait pas « faire visiter les cuisines aux invités » a légué un fonds de quinze mille feuillets à la BnF. On admire moult manuscrits, l’écriture appliquée du bon élève (professeur, normalien, agrégé) des photographies, témoignages. Dernières volontés obligent, il faudra attendre 2027 pour connaitre les secrets de trente cahiers inédits de notules. A … Read the rest
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
- US thinktank linked to billionaires behind supreme court wealth tax case lobbying (Stephanie Kirchgaessner & Dominic Rushe, The Guardian)
- Law schools’ admission essays revamped after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling (Karen Sloan, Reuters)
- The Supreme Court’s Ethics Problem Has a Pretty Easy Solution (Michael J. Broyde, Bloomberg Law)
- The One Thing the Supreme Court
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The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.
Last week the federal government encouraged the justices to review a pair of petitions involving two nearly identical laws in Florida and Texas that seek to regulate how large social media platforms can block, remove, or demonetize user content. Lawmakers in both states passed the bills to address what they … Read the rest
Judge José A. Cabranes, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, is the 2023 recipient of the Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award. Cabranes will receive the award in a Sept. 26 ceremony at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Judiciary News – United States Courts… Read the rest
On June 27, 2022, Three Arrows Capital (“3AC”), a crypto hedge fund, commenced liquidation proceedings in the British Virgin Islands and thereafter filed recognition proceedings in, among other countries, the United States and Singapore. As we discussed earlier this year, on December 2, 2022, the bankruptcy court presiding over 3AC’s chapter 15 proceeding pending in the Southern District of New York held that the 3AC joint liquidators (the “JLs”) could serve a subpoena (the “U.S. Subpoena”) upon a 3AC cofounder, … Read the rest
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:
- Activist Behind Supreme Court Affirmative Action Cases Is Now Suing Law Firms (Douglas Belkin & Erin Mulvaney, The Wall Street Journal)
- Qualified Immunity Faces an Existential Threat at the Supreme Court (Matt Ford, The New Republic)
- Jennifer Gruda talks about going from Jaffrey to the Supreme Court (Ashley Saari, Monadnock Ledger-Transcript)
- Trump Says He