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HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS v. NATION ENTERPRISES

No. 80 Civ. 0856 (RO).

557 F.Supp. 1067 (1983)

HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS, INC. and the Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. NATION ENTERPRISES and the Nation Associates, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 16, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward A. Miller, New York City, for plaintiff Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., New York City, for plaintiff The Reader's Digest Ass'n, Inc.; Roger L. Zissu, Robert J. Bernstein, Jane Ginsburg, New York City, of counsel.

Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, Andrew L. Deutsch, American Civil Liberties Union, New York City, Leon Friedman, Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, N.Y., for defendants; Floyd Abrams, Devereux Chatillon, Carol E. Rinzler, New York City, of counsel.

OPINION AND ORDER

OWEN, District Judge.

Defendants Nation Enterprises and The Nation Associates, Inc. publish The Nation which is perhaps America's oldest continuously published weekly magazine. On a day in late March, 1979, an undisclosed "source" put The Nation's editor, Victor Navasky, into unauthorized possession of a draft of former President Gerald R. Ford's memoirs. This draft was the fruit of close to two years work by Ford and his assistant Trevor...

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