Here’s a story from The Legal Intelligencer, “Law professors seek injunction over ’sham’ treatise supplement that raises the question:
Law professors seek injunction over ’sham’ treatise supplement
The Legal IntelligencerShannon P. Duffy
April 16, 2009
An ugly dispute has erupted between West Publishing and two law professors who claim they were falsely identified as the authors of an annual supplement to a treatise on Pennsylvania criminal law even though they had nothing to do with writing it.
In a federal lawsuit, professors David Rudovsky of the University of Pennsylvania and Leonard Sosnov of Widener Law School claim that the December 2008 supplement, or “pocket part,” to their book, “Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure — Law, Commentary and Forms,” was so poorly researched that it will harm their reputations if allowed to remain on library shelves.
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Erika Wayne
Paul Lomio
Kate Wilko
George Wilson
Sergio Stone
Brian Provenzale
April 16, 2009 at 6:01 am
You can find the case filings on Justia:
http://news.justia.com/cases/featured/pennsylvania/paedce/2:2009cv00727/295645/
April 17, 2009 at 2:05 pm
And here’s a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the case:
http://chronicle.com/news/article/?id=6328&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
April 25, 2009 at 2:27 am
[...] had since been reversed or modified.” By Paul Lomio An earlier post here, “So Who Does Write Those Expensive Supplements and Updates to Big Name Treatises?, commented upon a lawsuit brought against Thomson West by the authors of one of [...]
June 10, 2009 at 1:17 pm
[...] v. West Publishing Corp. By Paul Lomio Here is an update to a case commented upon earlier here and [...]
June 24, 2009 at 8:50 pm
[...] know: Who wrote this supplement? Was it the same team of people who wrote the supplement to Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure? No, check that: There’s no way I’m paying for this supplement. No way; no [...]