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"West used every effort to avoid an adjudication of its rights and to make it difficult for Hyperlaw to determine what portions of the reported opinions were in the public domain and could be freely copied."

--Hon. John Martin

 

"According to the court findings, GHMSI carried out a clandestine plan to use the Blue Cross and Blue Shield trademark illegally in several foreign countries. . . GHMSI masterminded an international scam involving numerous insurance companies and hospitals around the world, according to Court findings."

--VI Daily News

 

SCRG, the current alumina refinery owner, also filed suit against SCA, the company from which it purchased the refinery facility in 2002...In that case, a jury found that SCA fraudulently induced SCRG to enter into a contract to purchase the refinery property, breached the terms of certain warranties embodied in the contract for sale, and negligently performed its contractual duty to remediate the property in connection with its sale of the property to SCRG....The jury awarded SCRG $12,617,867 for breach of contract and fraud in the inducement, $10,000,000 as a result of SCA's negligence, and $6,142,856 in punitive damages.

--Hon. Harvey Bartle
 

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"Judge James C. Cacheris of the Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia, gave Carl Hartmann and attorneys for Blue Cross and Blue Shield until Friday to submit 10 page briefs on the unsealing of court documents. Cacheris said he will consider the briefs before deciding whether the documents should be unsealed. "

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To read more about this case, see the following articles:

'Copyright Law: The "Hyperlaw" Trilogy', Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp), New York Law Journal, March 14, 2001 [A good 'look back' following the conclusion of the cases.]

‘West Publishing Loses a Decision on Copyright’, David Cay Johnston, The New York Times, May 21, 1997, Page D-1.

‘How West Was Won’, The American Lawyer, September, 1996, p. 73, John E. Morris.

‘Fending Off the Future’, The American Lawyer, September, 1994, Susan Hansen.

‘Who Owns the Law?’, Wired , Gary Wolf, May, 1994, p. 94.

‘A Tilting of the Tables, A Federal Judge Tells West -- A Company Famous For Getting the Law Right -- That its Pet Theory for Owning the Contents of its Books is a Legal Loser’, Thomas Scheffey, The Connecticut Law Tribune, February 3, 1997.

‘Judge Rules Against West Publishing in Legal-Research Copyright Lawsuit’, Frances A McMorris, Wall Street Journal, May 21, 1997.

‘Some Decision Reports Denied Copyright Protection’, Danial Wise, New York Law Journal, May 23, 1997, page 1.

‘Copyright and the Courts’, Editorial, Washington Post, March 22, 1997, (‘Public access to that most common possession, the law, is probably worth quite a lot of inconveniences.’ )

‘Watch Cost of Law Library Drop With CD-ROMs, WEB and OnLine’, The National Law Journal, December 16, 1996, Wendy R. Leibowitz.

‘West Dealt Second Blow in New York Copyright Case’, Dan Goodlin, The Recorder, May 22, 1997.

‘Universal Citation: The Fullest Possible Dissemination of Judgments’, Jol Silversmith, College Hill Internet Legal Practice Newsletter, May 19, 1997. (An excellent comprehensive discussion of the citation issues, written by a third year student at Harvard Law School.)

‘Now we're cooking with gas...’, Molly Ivins, syndicated April 20, 1997, (discussing Vance Opperman political contributions and Department of Justice).

‘Vance Opperman's Donations Under Scrutiny’, Greg Gordon, Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 15, 1997.

‘The Cheerful Giver’, Viveca Novak and Michael Novak, Time Magazine, April 21, 1997, Page 80.

‘Electronic Citations: Witnesses Support ABA Proposal For Universal Citation System’, BNA Electronic Information Policy and Law Report, Janet L. Benedetti, April 11, 1997, (paraphrasing HyperLaw, ‘The proposed system will benefit solo practitioners and small firms the most.’)

‘Brave New Briefs’, Tom Scheffey, Connecticut Law Tribune, March, 1997. (Quoting HyperLaw ‘The EDGAR system forced even the stuffiest corporate lawyers to change their ways, and created a better system.’)

‘Still No Merger Ok for West, Thomson’, Harvey Berkman, National Law Journal, February 24, 1997. (Lexis ended its opposition, leaving judge Friedman to fret that there would be no party to appeal his merger approval ... He invited HyperLaw, Inc. to refile a motion to be granted intervenor status.’)

‘Appeal May Delay West-Thomson Deal’, Anthony Aarons, Los Angeles Daily Journal, February 26, 1997.

‘A See No-Evil Merger Probe?’, Connecticut Law Tribune, February 24, 1997, (‘HyperLaw Contends the public needs to see secret Lexis-West pact to fathom the West-Thomson mergers, and that Justice went soft on antitrust investigation.’)

‘A Tilting of the Tables', The Connecticut Law Tribune, February 3, 1997.

‘Ruling May Open Market for Digital Law Libraries’, New York Times on the Web, December 27, 1996, Wendy Liebowitz.

‘Crack in the West 'Monopoly’, Connecticut Law Tribune, December 2, 1996, Thomas Scheffey.

‘West Publishing Company has lost critical court fight’, Legal Times (Washington, DC), December 2, 1996, Krysten Crawford.

‘Legal Publisher Loses Copyright On Page System’, New York Law Journal, November 29, 1996, Daniel Wise. (Statements of HyperLaw's lead counsel, Carl J. Hartmann III regarding the import of Judge Martin's decision.)

‘West Loses Long Copyright Fight Over Pagination’, The Recorder, November 25, 1995.

‘What's At Stake in West Deal’, Legal Times, November 18, 1996.

‘Operation of Shepard's May Hold Up Deal - DOJ Review Ongoing’, Los Angeles Daily Journal, November 5, 1996. (Anthony Aarons feature story describes the intervention of the Department of Justice in slowing down the acquisition of Shepard's by Times-Mirror -- Matthew Bender -- and the joint venture between Bender and Lexis to operate Shepard's.) 

‘WWW.Block_That_Merger.com’, The American Lawyer November, 1996.

‘Washington Post Editorial’, November 3, 1996. (The Washington Post asked that the Clinton Administration not include database protection in the WIPO upcoming treaty negotiations in Geneva.)

‘It Ain't Over 'Til the District Judge Rules’, Connecticut Law Tribune, October 7, 1996.

‘Merger Fallout’, California Law Business, March 18, 1996, Anthony T. Aarons.

‘Foreign-owned West may see Clout Fizzle’, Pioneer Planet, February 29, 1996.

‘Publishing Deal Faces Hurdle’, San Francisco Recorder, February 27, 1996.

‘Easing Limits on Legal Publishing’, New York Times, October 9, 1995, Laura Mansnerus.

‘U.S. Justices took Trips form West Publishing Company’, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, March 5, 1995 - March 7, 1995. (Multi-Part Series by Sharon Schmickle and Tom Hamburger reporting the Devitt Award under which West awarded annual $15,000 prizes to federal judge sitting on West case, and Justices who met at luxury resorts at West's expense.)

‘WEST: A Study in Special Interest Lobbying’, The Hill, February 22, 1995, Doug Obey and Albert Eisele. (Very Important article discussing defeat of West promoted bill to obtain database protection legislation.)

‘For West Publishing Company, the Gavel is Coming Down Hard and Loud’, Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 28, 1994, By John J. Oslund.

‘Whose Public Records? Companies Battle for Electronic Access’ Dayton Daily News, September 25, 1994.

‘West Publishing Disputes Benefits of ECS Proposal Leader's’, Legal Tech Newsletter, July 1992.

‘Another View of Copyright of Case Reporters’, Alan D. Sugarman, New York Law Journal, July 28, 1992.