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NORSE v. HENRY HOLT AND CO.

No. C-89-3604-CAL.

847 F.Supp. 142 (1994)

Harold NORSE, Plaintiff, v. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY and Ted Morgan, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

January 25, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome N. Field, Jerome N. Field Inc., A Law Corp., San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff.

Daniel A. Ross, Sharfman, Shanman, Poret, & Siviglia, New York City, Neil Rosenbaum, Kerner Weppner & Rosenbaum, San Francisco, CA, for defendants.

ORDER ON DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

LEGGE, District Judge.

Defendant Ted Morgan, a biographer, copied excerpts from copyrighted letters written by plaintiff Harold Norse and used them in a biography of author William S. Burroughs entitled Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs, published by defendant Holt.

I.

In this action, plaintiff originally alleged defamation, unfair competition, breach...

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