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COMFORT v. FUND FOR THE REPUBLIC, INC.

No. CV 75-2510-DWW.

422 F.Supp. 1086 (1976)

Alexander COMFORT, Plaintiff, v. The FUND FOR the REPUBLIC, INC., a corporation doing business as the Center For the Study of Democratic Institutions, Defendant. The FUND FOR the REPUBLIC, INC., a corporation doing business as the Center For the Study of Democratic Institutions, Counterclaimant, v. Alexander COMFORT and Modsets Securities Limited, Counterdefendants.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

November 22, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira H. Lurvey, Charles Daly, Pacht, Ross, Warne, Bernhard & Sears, Inc., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff and counterclaim defendant Alexander Comfort.

Price, Postel & Parma, Santa Barbara, Cal., for defendant and counterelaimant The Fund for the Republic, Inc.

Robert Yale Libott, Jones & Libott Incorporated, Los Angeles, Cal., for Modsets Securities Limited and Mitchell Beazley Limited (California Counsel).

William M. Borchard, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, for Modsets Securities Limited and Mitchell Beazley Limited (New York Counsel).

MEMORANDUM OPINION

DAVID W. WILLIAMS, District Judge.

In his spare time from his duties as a professor in a London college, Dr. Alexander Comfort wrote what proved to be a popular book which he titled "The Joy of Sex", (hereinafter Joy). It was published by Modsets Securities, Ltd., (hereinafter Modsets) a British Company. After signing the publishing contract Comfort realized that his gathering wealth from royalties was going to be substantially...

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