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Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court

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771 points abetusk | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 08:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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myrmidon ◴[18 Oct 24 13:03 UTC] No.41879059[source]▶
This is utterly puzzling to me.

I just don't understand how you sit on the museums side of the trial on this, without seriously questioning your own position and conceding immediately.

They were basically arguing that they are entitled to hide those scan artifacts to better protect their gift shop?! How can they even reconcile those arguments with preserving the artists legacy/serving the common good?

I'm also surprised at how nonchalantly the french supreme (!!) court seems to cope with the museum just ignoring their two month deadline for three months in the new trial... Is there no equivalent to "contempt of court" in french law? Is this typical?

My conclusion is that there is either pure stubbornness or some weird, jealous hoarding mentality happening on the museums side, because I have no other explanation why they would fight so hard for their position seemingly against all reason.

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thrance ◴[18 Oct 24 13:41 UTC] No.41879392[source]▶
There is no supreme court in France, this is a gross mistranslation of "Court de Cassation", which is where you bring your case after you have lost your appeal, and is the last court where you can try to argue your point.
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tshaddox ◴[18 Oct 24 14:50 UTC] No.41879959[source]▶
You’ve just described precisely what a supreme court is. This is definitely the supreme court of France.
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1. kergonath ◴[18 Oct 24 15:22 UTC] No.41880265[source]▶
The description was incomplete. The cour de cassation is not supreme at all, there are the Constitutional Council and the Court of Justice of the EU above it. As well as more specialised international courts like the European Court of Human Rights. There is a summary here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_France .

In any case, France has a civil law system; there cannot be a court as powerful as the Supreme Court of the US is. Viewing any of these institutions as similar to SCOTUS is bound to create a lot of confusion.