LIEBOWITZ v. ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD.

No. 91 Civ. 4551 (LAK).

927 F.Supp. 688 (1996)

Harold LIEBOWITZ and Advanced Engineering Research & Development Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD., f/k/a Pergamon Press, PLC and Elsevier Science, Inc., f/k/a Pergamon Press, Inc., Defendants.

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

As Amended June 7, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis T. Carr, Howard J. Shire, John Flock, Joshua R. Bressler, Kenyon & Kenyon, New York City, for Plaintiffs.

James W. Dabney, Pennie & Edmonds, New York City, for Defendants.


OPINION

KAPLAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff Harold Liebowitz, former Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at George Washington University, conceived of a scientific journal and persuaded the late media tycoon, Robert Maxwell, who then owned Pergamon Press, to back the idea. Publication began. Over the years, Liebowitz's ideas spawned a number of highly successful journals, all published by...

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