New York Times Blog; 7/15/09 provides insight regarding Judge Sotomayor's position of fair and appropriate payment for the loss of 12,600 photography originals created by a professional photographer.
Chris User, a pofessional photographer, created a portfolio of 12,600., Images during the 2000 Presidential campaign.
On April 10, 2009, in "Usher v. Corbis-Sygma", Judge Sotomayor and her colleagues affirmed the District Court’s $157,000 award to Mr. Usher for the loss of 12,600 photograph images.
“The value of these images is certainly more than $7 each,” Mr. Usher, 47, said in a telephone interview Tuesday from Alexandria, Va., where he lives. “But I’d so much rather have the images back.”
"She displayed absolutely no empathy or compassion for an individual who’d won his case against the world’s richest man by upholding an award to him in the exact same amount of money that a six-year-old would have gotten from Walmart or Walgreen's merely for asking."
"The Judge did not understand the uniqueness of the images and their historical significance".
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