Associated Press v. International News Service
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Associated Press against the International News Service. From an order granting a preliminary injunction, both parties appeal. Cross-appeals from order entered in District Court for Southern District of New York granting in part only the preliminary injunction moved for by plaintiff.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Associated Press against the International News Service. From an order granting a preliminary injunction, both parties appeal. Cross-appeals from order entered in District Court for Southern District of New York granting in part only the preliminary injunction moved for by plaintiff. The writ in question (reduced to its lowest terms) restrains defendant from (1) procuring any agent or employé of plaintiff, or any of its members, to give or permit defendant to take, for a…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Defendant does not admit the facts above staled, as to procuring news from a telegraph machine in the office of a publisher; we think them fairly and fully proven. The evidence adduced for the defense on all the other points above mentioned amounts to an assertion that what defendant is accused of wrongfully doing plaintiff itself does and has done, and it is, indeed, a part of the newsgathering trade. Upon these propositions of fact are rested the conclusions that (1) if the acts are wrong, plaintiff cannot ask relief in equity when its own hands are…
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