Matthew Bender & Co., Inc. v. West Publishing Co.

158 F.3d 693

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

August Term, 1997

(Argued: March 16, 1998 Decided: November 03, 1998)

Docket No. 97-7430

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MATTHEW BENDER & COMPANY, INC.,

Plaintiff-Appellee,

HYPERLAW, INC.,

Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee,

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WEST PUBLISHING CO.; WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION,

Defendants-Appellants.

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Before: CARDAMONE and JACOBS, Circuit Judges, and SWEET, District Judge.

MORGAN CHU, Los Angeles, CA (David Nimmer, Elliot Brown, Perry Goldberg, Irell & Manella LLP, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

PAUL J. RUSKIN, Douglaston, NY (Carl J. Hartmann, New York, NY, Lorence L. Kessler, Washington, DC, on the brief), for Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee.

ARTHUR R. MILLER, Cambridge, MA (James F. Rittinger, Joshua M. Rubins, Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants.

DAVID SEIDMAN, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC (Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney General, Lawrence R. Fullerton, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Robert B. Nicholson, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae United States of America.