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SALINGER v. RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

No. 657, Docket 86-7957.

811 F.2d 90 (1987)

Jerome D. SALINGER a/k/a J.D. Salinger, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. RANDOM HOUSE, INC. and Ian Hamilton, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 29, 1987.

Opinion Supplemented and Rehearing Denied May 4, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcia B. Paul, New York City (R. Andrew Boose, Jeremy Nussbaum, M. Graham Coleman, 2d, Kay Collyer & Boose, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert M. Callagy, New York City (Mark A. Fowler, Satterlee & Stephens, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before, NEWMAN and MINER, Circuit Judges.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the issue whether the biographer of a renowned author has made "fair use" of his subject's unpublished letters. The issue arises on an expedited appeal from an order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pierre N. Leval, Judge) denying a preliminary injunction sought by the well-known writer, J.D. Salinger, against Ian Hamilton and Random House, Inc., the author and publisher, respectively,...

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