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This is the appeal decision by the Second Circuit upholding the trial court's determination that West's changes to cases gives it no copyright in the TEXT of decisions. HyperLaw alone raised and tried this issue - in a bench trial before U.S. The New York Times stated the following about the trial court's decision: However, almost every one of West's decisions relating to citation alterations is inevitable, typical, dictated by legal convention, or at best binary." "West claims that it exercises careful judgment as to which sources are most useful to legal practitioners. Lawence Kessler was third seat and coordinated all trial prep and evidence handling.
On the appeal, West was represented by famous Harvard Law School Professor Arthur R. "Nor do we think the district court erred in concluding that the combination of these citation decisions is unprotectable.
MATTHEW BENDER & COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff, HYPERLAW, INC., Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee, The cumulative effect of these citation decisions is a piling up of things that are essentially obvious or trivial (albeit helpful)." West's particular decisions about which parallel citations to insert are driven in each instance by the court's decision to cite to a certain case, and thus each editorial choice is independent of the others. and WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION, Defendants-Appellants. Kessler, Washington, DC, on the brief), for Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee. Rubins, Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants. Sims, Anna Kraske, New York, NY), for Amicus Curiae Reed Elsevier, Inc. (Arnall Golden & Gregory LLP, Atlanta, GA, L. Ray Patterson, Athens, GA), for Amicus Curiae American Association of Legal Publishers. Settlemyer, III, Washington, DC), for Amicus Curiae American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Medical Library Association, Society of American Archivists, Special Library Association.īefore: CARDAMONE and JACOBS, Circuit Judges, and SWEET, * District Judge. Judge Sweet dissents in a separate opinion. Sweet, of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.
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