OASIS PUBLISHING SUES WEST 0VER PAGE NUMBER COPYRIGHT PROTECTION

Legal Publisher, March, 1997

In related news, legal information publisher Oasis Publishing Co. (Lincoln, NE) is suing the West Group (Eagan,

MN) in the Eighth Circuit Court. Oasis seeks a declaration that West cannot legitimately claim copyright protection in the page numbers of books published by West, which books contain Florida's court decisions. Similar issues have been recently addressed by the Southern District of New York and by the D.C. District Court during the West-Thomson Corp. merger proceedings.

Oasis is being represented by the Miami (FL) office of the law firm Broad and Cassel. Broad and Cassel partner Jose Rojas argued before the appellate court that a district court decision in West's favor should be reversed in light of contemporary Supreme Court rulings and existing...

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