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HyperLaw, Inc. was formed in 1991 to engage in electronic publishing of legal information. It was the first company to release on CD-ROM opinions of the United States Supreme Court (1992) and the first to release on CD-ROM opinions of the United States Courts of Appeals (1993), and at affordable prices. Currently [in 1998], it publishes a CD-ROM with over 39,000 opinions from the Federal Appellate Courts from 1993 to date and from the US Supreme Court from 1991 to date. HyperLaw and its founder and President Alan D. Sugarman are also active in citation reform and opening public access to the law. HyperLaw believes that the law should be available to the public at prices not inflated by monopolistic practices and artificial barriers to information maintained by or acquiesced in by the courts and the other branches of government.
January 30, 1998 Update. The silence on this page reflect the relative lack of activity. HyperLaw has three appeals pending relating to the efforts of Thomson, West, and Reed Elsevier to monopolize and control the dissemination of court opinions in the United States. We will be "filling" in the gaps during the next few weeks, so, please check back in.
The first appeal before the Second Circuit is the so-called "Citation Appeal", essentially seeking the explicit overruling of the notorious 1986 West v. Mead decision in the Eighth Circuit. Matthew Bender and HyperLaw are co-appellants in that appeal. The appeal was to have been argued on January 5, 1998, but, a district court judge assigned to the panel in effect recused herself, after a motion for recusal filed by Matthew Bender had been filed. The argument for this appeal has not been rescheduled as of February 13, 1998.
The second appeal in that same case is the so-called "Text Appeal", relating to West's overarching claims in the copyright of court opinions. That appeal has been full briefed. HyperLaw is the sole appellant in that appeal. Reed Elsevier has filed an amicus brief supporting West-Thomson. Matthew Bender had been expected to file an amicus brief supporting HyperLaw's position and rebutting the database protection type arguments contained in the Reed Elsevier brief, but, on the afternoon that briefs were to be filed, HyperLaw learned that (1) Times Mirror had announced that it was going to sell Matthew Bender and (2) Matthew Bender would not file the amicus brief. Reed Elsevier and Matthew Bender through a joint-venture own Shepards. The argument for this appeal has not been scheduled either as of February 13, 1998..
The third appeal is an appeal in the United States Court of appeals of the decision of the District Court of the District of Columbia arising out of the Tunney Act proceeding in affect sanctioning the merger of West and Thomson. HyperLaw filed its brief yesterday, January 29, 1998. HyperLaw argues that the District Court has essentially vitiated the Tunney Act. Given the events in the last two years including the acquisition of CCH by Wolters Kluwer, the announced merger of Wolters Kluwer to Reed Elsevier, and the sale of Matthew Bender (most likely to Wolters Kluwer), the reactivation of federal antitrust activity in Microsoft featuring Gary Reback whose client Lexis lured unsuspecting librarians and publishers to support what turned out to be a renegotiation of Lexis's "business agreements" with West and Thomson, the firing of top executives at Lexis, the soaring of prices charged by West and Thomson, the closing of Michie's offices in Charlottesville (Michie being the company that took over the "divested" product from West and Thomson in a DOJ sanction bulk deal), the closure by West of its Westbury, New York office, the termination of numerous jobs by Thomson in Rochester New York, the settlement of the citation case pending in the Eighth Circuit just days before the Circuit was to render an opinion, the refusal of the United States Judicial Conference to clean up its house as relates to public domain citations and dissemination of district court opinions, etc., etc., provides a new landscape for the District of Columbia Circuit to scrutinize how the Justice Department leaned over to approve the merger, supported by State attorney General's like NY's Dennis Vacco who must be proud of all the jobs lost in NY as a result of this merger. Of course, there is also the consolidation in legal newspaper publishing with the American Lawyer and its local papers under common ownership with the National Law Journal. One may also observe that West-Thomson and Reed-Elsevier, who have now joined forces to foist a number of monopolistic intellectual property laws on the unsuspecting, are the largest advertiser for those legal newspapers. Following is the HyperLaw brief filed yesterday.
NEW
Friday, March 21, 1997
HyperLaw Letter to Hon Richard Posner, Seventh Circuit Re ABA
Citation Proposal, March 21, 1997
NEW Friday, March 14, 1997
HyperLaw Comments to the U.S. Judicial Comments Re Citation: March
14, 1997
NEW Friday, March 14, 1997
Department of Justice Comments to the U.S. Judicial Comments Re
Citation: March 14, 1997
NEW Tuesday, March 11, 1997
Report on Oasis v. West (8th Cir) 3/10/97 Oral Argument
NEW Wednesday, February 26, 1997
More new news articles re DOJ v. Thomson/West and HyperLaw v. West
NEW Friday, February 21, 1997
New Filings in DOJ v. Thomson/West
NEW February 15, 1997
Transcript - Conference before Judge Friedman, February 6, 1996 --
USA v. Thomson, 96 CV 1415, USDC District of Columbia Judge Friedman raises further
questions, criticizes Department of Justice, objects to provisions in new license
agreement proposal, objects to divesture to Lexis, and invites HyperLaw to file an
expanded motion to intervene.
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