Legal Opinion
Nance v. Random House, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 30, 2002No. 00 Civ. 8639(SHS)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STEIN, District Judge.
John J. Nance, a successful author of action novels, brings this breach of contract action against Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (“Doubleday”) 1 and St. Martin’s Press, Inc. Jurisdiction exists in this Court because the controversy is between citizens of different states. See 28 U.S.C. § 1382. Nance alleges that defendants rejected his manuscript for a work of fiction in bad faith and fraudulently induced him to write an additional draft of the work that they never intended to publish. The publishers have moved for summary judgment dismissing the…
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- Helprin v. Harcourt, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 2003
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