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In 1989, photographer Jeffrey Sedlik captured a now-iconic portrait of jazz legend Miles Davis — dimly lit, finger pressed to his lips in a "Shh!" gesture. Sedlik registered the photograph with the U.S. Copyright Office in 1994

A bankruptcy filing can preempt state law, permitting termination of a General Partner’s management right. Generally speaking, partnership agreements provide and state laws provide for the removal of a General Partner’s management rights when a General Partner files bankruptcy. But, what happens when the General Partner files bankruptcy and such management rights become property of the estate?

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided four arbitration cases in 2025, each addressing a different piece of the process: agreement formation, scope, waiver, and judicial oversight of ongoing arbitration proceedings. Individually, they generated the usual case-specific commentary. But read together, they tell a bigger story: The Second Circuit is done treating arbitration agreements as a special category of contract that gets the benefit of the doubt. Going forward, they will be evaluated like any other agreement.