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LANIER v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

SJC-13138.

490 Mass. 37 (2022)

TAMARA LANIER v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

June 23, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua D. Koskoff, of Connecticut, & Ben Crump, of Florida (Carey B. Reilly & Preston Tisdale, of Connecticut, & Talley L. Kaleko & Jennifer L.W. Seymore, of Florida, also present) for the plaintiff.

Anton Metlitsky, of New York (Victoria L. Steinberg also present) for the defendants.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

John Roddy & Elizabeth Ryan for Eamon Moore Whalen & others, Jarrett Martin Drake, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Cornelia Bewersdorf, Dan Hicks & another, and Meredith McKinney & another.

Robert J. Ambrogi & Peter J. Caruso for Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association & another.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.

In 1850, the Harvard professor Louis Agassiz arranged to have daguerreotypes made of Renty Taylor and Delia Taylor, who were enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina.2 Renty was ordered to disrobe. His daughter, Delia, was stripped naked to the waist. Their images were then captured in four daguerreotypes...

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