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FAYARD v. HENRY HOLT & CO., INC.

No. 88 Civ. 1744(RJW).

726 F.Supp. 438 (1989)

Librairie Artheme FAYARD, Plaintiff, v. HENRY HOLT & COMPANY, INC., Defendant.

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

November 20, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wormser, Kiely, Galef & Jacobs, New York City (Lawrence M. McKenna, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke, New York City (Robert M. Callagy, Mark A. Fowler, of counsel), for defendant.

ROBERT J. WARD, District Judge.

This action arises out of a dispute over the rights to publish the autobiography of Lech Walesa ("Walesa"), the Nobel laureate and world renowned leader of the Solidarity labor movement in Poland. The dispute originated during a time when the attempt to tell the life story of Walesa, a symbol of the opposition to the communist government in Poland, was an endeavor necessarily shrouded in secrecy. Plaintiff, Librairie Artheme Fayard...

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