Legal Opinion
Musto v. Meyer
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 24, 1977No. 75 Civ. 6411PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BONSAL, District Judge.
As the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in The Yellow-Face, which appears in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes published by Penguin Books, “[s]ave for the occasional use of cocaine he [Holmes] had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.” This passage provides a backdrop for this lawsuit.
Plaintiff, David F. Musto (“Musto”), author of an article entitled “A Study in Cocaine: Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud” which appeared in the April 1, 1968 edition of the Journal…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Mazer v. SteinSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Nichols v. Universal Pictures CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1930
- Baker v. SeldenSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Rebecca Reyher and Ruth Gannett v. Children's Television Workshop and Tuesday Publications, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by17 opinions
- A. A. Hoehling v. Universal City Studios, Inc., and Michael MacDonald MooneyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
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- Miller Brewing Co. v. Carling O'Keefe Breweries of Canada, Ltd.District Court, W.D. New York · 1978
- Werlin v. Reader's Digest Ass'n, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1981
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