Legal Opinion
Liebowitz v. Elsevier Science Ltd.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 7, 1996No. 91 Civ. 4551 (LAK)PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff Harold Liebowitz, former Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at George Washington University, conceived of a scientific journal and persuaded the late media tycoon, Robert Maxwell, who then owned Pergamon Press, to back the idea. Publication began. Over the years, Liebowitz’s ideas spawned a number of highly successful journals, all published by Pergamon under Liebowitz’s direct or indirect editorship. The contracts between the parties, perhaps reflecting mutual confidence shared by Liebowitz and Maxwell, did not contemplate the…
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