No Surprises Here. TR West Are To Appeal Ruling On Award To Legal Profs

Here’s what’s being said at the moment. I’m sure we’ll learn more as 2011 moves into gear..

http://www.courthousenews.com/

Reports

PHILADELPHA (CN) – Legal publishing giant Thomson West will be back in Federal Court in January, after being walloped by a $5.2 million jury verdict for two law professors who said the company maliciously misattributed to them a poorly done addendum to their guide on Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure.

Also a report has just up on SLAW about the appeal

Thomson West Appeals Professors Damage Award

http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/30/thomson-west-appeals-professors-damage-award/

Louis reported earlier this month on the story of a US federal jury which awarded $2.5-million in punitive damages and $90,000 in actual damages to each of two law professors who said that Thomson West had put their names on an annual supplement to a leading Pennsylvania practitioners? text, even though they had refused to update the supplement when their pay was unilaterally halved.

Surprise to no-one – Thomson West will be back in court next month seeking an injunction to restrain what they say is prejudicial publicity ? and we suspect, saying that the punitives are excessive.

We will follow developments.

But it does seem that Eagan underestimated the cost of trying to trim $5000 from its production costs for a Pennsylvania looseleaf.