TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIV. v. ASM COMMUNICATIONS

No. CIV.A. 97-12365-PBS.

33 F.Supp.2d 66 (1998)

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Plaintiff, v. ASM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. d/b/a A1 Termpaper; Barton Lowe d/b/a Research Assistance; Rebecca Lane d/b/a Term Paper Warehouse and High Performance Papers; the Paper Store Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a the Paper Store, Thousands of Papers and Prestigious Papers; and Harold King d/b/a Paper Shack and Paper Sure, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

December 4, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Smith, Office of General Counsel, Boston, MA, for Trustees of Boston University.

Abe Korn, Brooklyn, NY, pro se.

Compu-Type, Jersey City, NJ, pro se.

Harvey A. Schwartz, Siobhan M. Sweeney, Schwartz, Shaw & Griffith, Boston, MA, for ASM Communications.

Robert S. Besser, Besser & Chapin, Pacific Palisades, CA, Robert S. Bresser, Pacific Palisades, CA, for Research Assistance, Cynthia Stone, Peter Revson.

Corey C. Shaw, Law Office of Corey C. Shaw, Boston, MA, Kenneth H. Berkland, Jr., Boston, MA, Harvey A. Schwartz, Siobhan M. Sweeney, Schwartz, Shaw & Griffith, Boston, MA, for paper Store Enterprises, Inc.

Harold King, Shreveport, LA, Harold King, Comstock Park, MI, pro se.

Harold King, Shreveport, LA, Harold King, Comstock Park, MI, for Will Cane.

Christopher T. Lilly, Bernkopf, Goodman & Baseman, Boston, MA, for Mark Tweito, Michael von Plato, Barton Lowe, Andrew Greenstein.

John R. Hitt, Atty. General's Office, Government Bureau, Boston, MA, for Commonwealth of Mass.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

This action arises out of the defendants' sale of term papers and other research materials to college students via the Internet, telephone, and electronic and United States mail. Plaintiff Boston University ("BU") claims that the defendants are online "term paper mills" that know or should know that Massachusetts students purchase papers from them for submission as their own work in...

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