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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Law - "2 Law Profs Win $5.2M Verdict in Defamation Case Over Pocket Part Authorship"
Martha Neil of the ABA Journal Blog had this interesting article today. Be sure to read the earlier coverage too, from Dec. 14th. It begins:
Two longtime authors of the supplementary "pocket part" to a Pennsylvania criminal procedure treatise say they were shocked when they saw they were still listed as the authors of a "sham" new version in 2008, after refusing to revise it because of a pay dispute with West Publishing Co.The embarrassingly thin update contained only a few new cases, contend law professors David Rudovsky of the University of Pennsylvania and Leonard Sosnov of Widener University. And they were afraid, because they were listed as its authors, that readers would assume they were responsible for the poorly researched product, recounts the Legal Intelligencer in an article reprinted in New York Lawyer (reg. req.).
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 21, 2010 02:32 PM
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