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Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., et al. v. Decker, U. S. District Judge

394 U.S. 944·Supreme Court of the United States·1969

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Opinion

No. 1034. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., et al. v. Decker, U. S. District Judge. Certiorari denied. Horace S. Manges, Donald J. Williamson, and A. Paul Victor for petitioners Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., et al.; H. Templeton Brown and Lee N. Abrams for petitioner William Morrow & Co., Inc.; W. Donald McSweeney for petitioners Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., et al. ; Earl A. Jinkinson for petitioner Franklin Watts, Inc.; Conrad W. Oberdorfer for petitioner Houghton Mifflin Co.; David P. List for petitioner American News Co.; Samuel Weisbard for petitioner Golden Press, Inc.; Bruce A. Hecker for petitioner Campbell & Hall, Inc.; Edgar E. Barton for petitioner McGraw-Hill, Inc.; Earl E. Pollock for petitioner Baker & Taylor Co.; and Leo Rosen for petitioners Thomas Y. Crowell Co. et al. Lee A. Freeman for respondent and certain real parties in interest; Paul W. Brown, Attorney General, and Donald Weckstein, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Ohio; Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Attorney General, and Benjamin F. Yancey, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the State of West Virginia; Kent Frizzell, Attorney General, for the State of Kansas; Robert W. Warren, Attorney General, and George F. Sieker, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Wisconsin; Douglas M. Head, Attorney General, and Roger E. Montgomery, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Minnesota; Louis J. Lejkowitz, Attorney General, for the State of New York; William J. Scott, Attorney General, for the State of Illinois; Crawford C. Martin, Attorney General, and Thomas W. Mack, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Texas; Theodore L. Sendak, Attorney General, for the State of Indiana; Raymond F. Simon for the City of Chicago; J. Lee Rankin for the City of New York; Harold E. Kohn and David Berger for the City of Philadelphia et al.; John A. Murray for the City of St. Paul et al.; and David J. Young for Archbishop and Bishops of the Six Dioceses in Ohio, certain real parties in interest. [MAJORITY] C. A. 7th Cir. Motion for leave to supplement record granted.