West Publishing

>On 3/1/95, Schatz Pauqin, who represents West Publishing, wrote:
>
>West's case reporters aren't all-inclusive. The U.S.
>district courts, for example, decide something like 700,000 cases a
>year; but only about 1% of these ever get reported in a West case
>reporter.

This may be so, but the two federal courts with which I am familiar, as a law clerk, decide which of their cases will be published. And, West does not publish any cases that the judges classify as "nonpublished." This is in contrast to other reporters, such as United States Patent Quarterly, which does publish "unpublished" opinions and selects, based on criteria establised by THEM (not the author-judges), whether to include such cases within the reporter. This factor, of course, detracts from Mr. Pauqin's point regarding the copyrightable work of authorship inherent in West's "copyrighted arrangement."

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