“This morning the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in the case of Lanier v Harvard, in which Tamara Lanier seeks to recover daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors, father and daughter Renty and Delia Taylor, taken on a South Carolina plantation in 1850. The case is mostly about property and procedural law, namely, replevin and laches, though counsel for Lanier described the initial possession of the images as tortious conversion …” (more)
[Richard Peltz-Steele, The Savory Tort, 1 November]
First posted 2021-11-02 12:00:35
Leave a Reply