Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's close friend Harlan Crow, who funded luxury vacations and private jet flights for the justice and his wife, had business before the Supreme Court, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg.
In January 2005, the architecture firm Womack+Hampton Architects LLC filed a petition seeking over $25 million from Trammell Crow Residential Co., which was co-owned by Crow Holdings, for allegedly violating copyrighted building designs. But the court refused to review the appeal and Thomas was not noted to have recused himself or dissented in the one-sentence order issued, according to Bloomberg.
