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Welcome to a special edition of The Supreme Court Brief. The court handed down six decisions Thursday morning, taking another bite out of a large opinion…
May 19, 2023 at 06:45 AM
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United States Supreme CourtWelcome to a special edition of The Supreme Court Brief. The court handed down six decisions Thursday morning, taking another bite out of a large opinion backlog. Those included a victory for photographer Lynn Goldsmith in her copyright lawsuit over Andy Warhol's silkscreen portrait of Prince, which he adapted from Goldsmith's original photograph. Read our coverage of the decision, and the unusually charged dialogue between Justice Sonia Sotomayor's majority opinion and Justice Elena Kagan's dissent.
The court also ruled in a pair of closely watched cases involving the potential legal liability of internet giants Twitter, Facebook and Google in lawsuits brought by the surviving family members of ISIS terrorism victims. The Supreme Court rejected claims that the companies "aided and abetted" ISIS by allowing them to use their platforms, and refused to reconsider the broad immunity that internet companies have long enjoyed under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Later in the afternoon, the court formally dropped a case involving the now-defunct Title 42 border policy, in which government officials used the public health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic as legal justification to quickly turn away migrants, including asylum seekers, at the U.S.-Mexico border. Justice Neil Gorsuch used the order dismissing the case as an opportunity to criticize the strict public health measures adopted during the height of the pandemic, as well as the judges, and justices, who tolerated them.
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