Summary
stating that phrases such as “advertising purposes” and for the “purposes of trade ... must be construed narrowly and not used to curtail the right of free speech, or free press, or to shut off the publication of matters newsworthy or of public interest, or to prevent comment on matters in which the public has an interest or the right to be informed”
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Argued January 13, 1970
Decided February 19, 1970
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, IRWIN D. DAVIDSON, J.
Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer for appellant.
Alfred H. Wasserstrom and Sherman H. Saiger for respondent.
Horace S. Manges, Edward C. Wallace and Marshall C. Berger for American Book Publishers Council, Inc., amicus curiae. Irwin Karp for Authors League of America, Inc., amicus curiae.
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Chief Judge FULD and Judges SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL, JASEN and GIBSON. Taking no part: Judge BURKE.