W.D.I.A. Corp. v. McGraw-Hill, Inc.

ORDER

HERMAN J. WEBER, District Judge.

This is an action in breach of contract and fraud brought by plaintiff W.D.I.A. Corporation d/b/a National Credit Information Network and NCI (W.D.I.A.) against defendants McGraw-Hill, Inc. (McGraw-Hill) and Jeffrey Rothfeder (Rothfeder). The plaintiff alleges that the defendants engaged in fraud to induce plaintiff to enter into a contract, then willfully and wantonly breached the contract in conscious disregard of plaintiffs rights, resulting in damage to plaintiff.

On or about April 1, 1989, Rothfeder presented to his Editors the idea for an article for…