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.