Lish v. Harper's Magazine Foundation

LASKER, District Judge.

The parties cross-move to vacate taxation of their opponent’s bill of costs, and to enforce taxation of their own costs, after entry of judgment.

I

This action concerns the publication in the December 1990 issue of Harper’s Magazine of a letter Gordon Lish sent to the forty-nine prospective students of his fall 1990 writing class (the “Letter”). Because of limited magazine space available, the Letter was cut from 2,308 to 1,206 words. The deletions were not marked by ellipses, and the Letter was published and edited without Lish’s permission. Lish claimed that the…