Oh yes. The granddaddy of them all—a young architect, wronged, tilts at the corporate meat grinder of SOM. His goal? Justice! Oh, it's so beautiful we need a stiff drink just to hydrate ourselves enough to shed a single glistening tear. It's so beautiful, even, that the crackhead Hemingway ingenue of the 'sphere was moved to commit an act of naked philosophicationizing. And our comrades (and co-defendants) at Curbed have been similarly enthused. Yesterday, the Times reports, Thomas Shine's intellectual property grievance against David Childs was given life by the courts. Care not that the offending structure—two Freedom Towers ago—lives nowhere now but in the musty papers of this lawsuit. And in Paul Goldberger's book. And in Danny's nightmares. It's enough. It's enough.

· Suit Claiming Similarities in Tower Design Can Proceed [NYT]

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