Katahn v. Hearst Corp.

MEMORANDUM

JOHN T. NIXON, District Judge.

Pending before the Court is the defendants’ motion for summary judgment and the plaintiff’s opposition thereto.

FACTS

Plaintiff Martin Katahn is a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, the Director of the Weight Management Program at Vanderbilt, and the author of several books relating to weight loss and control. His most famous works are The Rotation Diet and The Rotation Diet Cookbook. The underlying premise of the diet described in these books is that by rotating periods of low calorie intake with periods of higher intake, the dieter is…