West's Reponsse to TAP

[James Love <love@tap.org>]

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CROWN JEWELS CAMPAIGN - Juris, Legal Information
September 30, 1994

The following is a post sent to tap-info and other lists by West 
spokesperson Dorothy Molstad (dmolstad@research.westlaw.com), followed by 
a comment by Alan Sugarman (sugarman@panix.com) which was posted on the 
law-lib list.  jamie

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 
From: Dorothy Molstad <dmolstad@research.westlaw.com>
Subject: West's Response to TAP

Is There Still Time For the Truth?

West's Response to TAP
September 29th Posting on Multiple Internet Lists

The TAP Internet posting on multiple Internet lists of September 29, 1994
is wrong.

West Publishing Company has talked to the Department of Justice (DOJ)
and has been told that the DOJ, in fact, is conducting an informal
preliminary investigation into the entire computer-assisted legal
research (CALR) industry.  West is fully cooperating.

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  next, an excerpt from sugarman's comment on law-lib


Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 
From: Alan Sugarman <sugarman@panix.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <law-lib@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: West's Response to TAP

Last week, I was contacted by a Department of Justice Anti-Trust 
Division attorney and asked if I would submit to an interview.
I was told that DOJ was investigating "West Publishing Company".

This week, I was called back and told that the Anti-Trust Division was 
conducting an investigation of the "on-line legal research industry."

So perhaps there are two investigations going on!


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