Four Supreme Court Justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson — all recused themselves from considering an appeal in a copyright case, BMG Rights Management v. Vetter, leaving the court without a quorom. All four are Penguin Random House authors, and there has been criticism in the past when justices did not recuse themselves from cases related to Bertelsmann. Monday’s action suggests that for now the high court could be unable to review any case involving Bertelsmann or its subsidiaries. That lets stand the January ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Which is […]
