SIMON & SCHUSTER v. N.Y. STATE CRIME VICTIMS BD.

No. 87 Civ. 5582 (JFK).

724 F.Supp. 170 (1989)

SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC., Plaintiff, v. MEMBERS OF the NEW YORK STATE CRIME VICTIMS BOARD, Gennaro Fischetti, George L. Grobe, Jr., Diane McGrath, and Angelo Petromelis, individually and in their official capacities, Defendants.

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

October 26, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald S. Rauchberg, Charles S. Sims, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, John C. Bender, Elizabeth A. McNamara, Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York City, for plaintiff.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., New York City (Harvey J. Golubuck, Howard L. Zwickel, Anne S. Haskell, of counsel), for defendants.

Henry Mark Holzer, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, N.Y., Daniel J. Popco, Michael P. McDonald, Washington Legal Found., Washington, D.C., amici curiae, for Washington Legal Found., et al.

Arthur Eisenberg, New York Civ. Liberties Union, Leon Friedman, New York City, amicus curiae, for the New York Civ. Liberties Union.

Irwin Karp, Port Chester, N.Y., amicus curiae, for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City (R. Bruce Rich, Robin E. Silverman of counsel), amicus curiae, for the Ass'n of American Publishers, Inc.


OPINION AND ORDER

KEENAN, District Judge:

Before the Court are plaintiff's motion and defendants' cross-motion for summary judgment. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56. Plaintiff Simon & Schuster, Inc. ("Simon & Schuster") seeks an order declaring that New York Executive Law section 632-a violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Court has heard oral argument on these motions and has received numerous briefs of amici curiae...

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