Free Newsletter
Law school profs get $2.5M in publisher dispute
By: The Associated Press//December 21, 2010
PHILADELPHIA — Two law school professors have won more than $2 million in damages after a legal publisher released a book addendum bearing their names even though they didn’t work on it.
A federal jury last week found West Publishing Corp. defamed the professors when it published the 2008 addendum to their book on Pennsylvania criminal court procedures.
The professors claimed West damaged their reputations by putting their names on an inferior product they didn’t create.
University of Pennsylvania professor David Rudovsky and Widener Law School professor Leonard Sosnov were awarded $2.5 million in punitive damages. They say they stopped work on the addendum because West wanted cut their pay for the addendum to $2,500 each.
The publisher tells The Philadelphia Inquirer it plans to appeal.
Related Content
Case Digests
- Second Circuit – RICO: Horn v. Medical Marijuana Inc.
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Uncompensated interview: Opinion 22-159
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Uncompensated guest speaker: Opinion 22-158
- Fourth Department – Negligent performance: Rosenthal v. Syracuse University, et al.
- Second Circuit – Visual Artists Rights Act: Kerson v. Vermont Law School Inc.
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Former foreclosure referee: Opinion 22-157
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – College honorarium: Opinion 22-156
- Second Circuit – Reasonable accommodation: Tafolla v. Heilig
- Fourth Department – Labor Law: Primisch v. Peroxychem LLC
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Judicial candidacy: Opinion 22-155
- Fourth Department – Defamation: Lavine v. Glavin
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Law clerk: Opinion 22-154
Law News
- Murder conviction affirmed despite trial judge error
- NY appeals court upholds conviction in burglary case
- Federal lawsuit reinstated against jail officer over strip search, delayed release
- Hyzon to pay $25M penalty to settle alleged fraud charges by SEC
- NY appeals court reinstates lawsuit over contract to remove snow
- Fourth Department affirms $400K judgment in contract dispute
- Fourth Department affirms decision in NY property dispute
- Greenlight Networks selects Buffalo-based attorney as general counsel
Polls
Loading ...