{"id":1923941,"date":"2023-05-04T02:40:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T06:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-scotus-justice-took-3m-from-book-publisher-didnt-recuse-from-its-cases\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T02:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T06:44:46","slug":"liberal-scotus-justice-took-3m-from-book-publisher-didnt-recuse-from-its-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-scotus-justice-took-3m-from-book-publisher-didnt-recuse-from-its-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Justice took $3M from book publisher, didn&#8217;t recuse from cases."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberal-scotus-justice-took-3m-from-book-publisher-didnt-recuse-from-its-cases%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923941&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Refuses to Recuse Herself from Copyright Infringement Cases Involving Penguin Random House Despite Receiving Millions from the Publisher<\/h2>\n<p>Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been paid millions by book publisher Penguin Random House for her books, making it her largest source of income. Despite this, she declined to recuse herself from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-scotus-justice-took-3m-from-book-publisher-didnt-recuse-from-its-cases\/\" title=\"Liberal Justice took M from book publisher, didn't recuse from cases.\">multiple copyright infringement cases involving<\/a> the publisher. Records show that in 2010, she received a $1.2 million book advance from Knopf Doubleday Group, a part of the conglomerate. In 2012, she reported receiving two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchdogs-sound-alarm-as-ilhan-omar-continues-to-evade-financial-disclosure-of-reportedly-lucrative-book-deal\/\" title=\"Watchdogs Sound Alarm As Ilhan Omar Continues To Evade Financial Disclosure Of Reportedly Lucrative Book Deal\">advance payments<\/a> from the publisher totaling $1.9 million. In 2017, Sotomayor began receiving payments each year from Penguin Random House itself, which continued annually through at least 2021, the most recent disclosure available, and totaled more than $500,000. In all, she received $3.6 million from Penguin Random House or its subsidiaries.<\/p>\n<h3>Compelling Argument for Supreme Court to Hear Copyright Infringement Case Against Penguin Random House<\/h3>\n<p>Children\u2019s author Jennie Nicassio petitioned the Supreme Court to hear her lawsuit against Penguin Random House alleging that the book publisher had copied her book by selling one that was nearly identical. On the same day that the petition was distributed to the justices, Sotomayor received a $10,586 check from the publisher. The Supreme Court voted not to hear the case, denying the \u201cwrit of certiorari\u201d and meaning that the case would remain where it left off \u2014 with a circuit court having found in the publisher\u2019s favor. Lawyers for Nicassio made a compelling argument that her case was worthy of being taken up by the Supreme Court. The case being heard by the high court would be of significant concern to publishers because it could set a precedent that could open the floodgates to many other copyright infringement suits against them.<\/p>\n<h3>Conflict of Interest?<\/h3>\n<p>Sotomayor\u2019s decision not to recuse herself is particularly notable because then-fellow Justice Stephen Breyer recused after also receiving money from the publisher. Breyer received payments from Penguin Random House or Knopf each year, which he seemingly viewed as a conflict, even though he received only a tenth of the amount \u2014 $340,000 during the same time period \u2014 as Sotomayor (Breyer\u2019s wife also wrote a book for the company).<\/p>\n<h3>Fix The Court Criticizes Media Overreaction<\/h3>\n<p>Fix The Court, a nonpartisan group that has long watchdogged Supreme Court finances, has criticized the media for overreacting with stories about liberal justices this month, calling an issue with Justice Neil Gorsuch selling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bezos-white-house-misleading-public-or-misunderstands-market-basics\/\" title=\"Bezos: White House misleading public or misunderstands market basics\">house misleading<\/a> and saying breathless findings about Chief Justice John Roberts\u2019 wife working as a legal recruiter \u201cmuch ado about nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Financial Disclosures<\/h3>\n<p>Sotomayor, who joined the court in 2009, is a prolific author, pumping out the memoir \u201cMy Beloved World\u201d and children\u2019s books such as \u201cTurning Pages: My Life Story;\u201d \u201cA Judge Grows In the Bronx;\u201d \u201cJust Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You.\u201d Her latest, \u201cJust Help! How to Build a Better World,\u201d was published in 2022, after the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wherever-vanita-gupta-worked-her-fathers-money-followed\/\" title=\"Wherever Vanita Gupta Worked, Her Father\u2019s Money Followed\">recent financial disclosure<\/a>, by a Penguin Books imprint. Fix The Court pointed out that Sotomayor failed to disclose six trips in 2016 funded by outside groups, before later correcting her disclosures.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Despite receiving millions from book publisher Penguin Random House, Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from multiple copyright infringement cases involving the publisher. Lawyers for Jennie Nicassio made a compelling argument that her case was worthy of being taken up by the Supreme Court, but the court voted not to hear the case, denying the \u201cwrit of certiorari\u201d and meaning that the case would remain where it left off \u2014 with a circuit court having found in the publisher\u2019s favor. Fix The Court has criticized the media for overreacting with stories about liberal justices this month, calling an issue with Justice Neil Gorsuch selling a house misleading and saying breathless findings about Chief Justice John Roberts\u2019 wife working as a legal recruiter \u201cmuch ado about nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from multiple copyright infringement cases involving book publisher Penguin Random House despite having been paid millions by the firm for her books, making it by far her largest source of income, records show. In 2010, she got a $1.2 million book advance from Knopf Doubleday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1923942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[25769,5297,5185,4352,4901,5206,8621,3782],"class_list":["post-1923941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-3m","tag-book","tag-cases","tag-didnt","tag-justice","tag-liberal","tag-publisher","tag-recuse"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}