SUPREME COURT CONDEMNS SELLERS OF LECTURE NOTES

A significant decision whereby three students were forbidden to make and dispose of notes of lectures delivered by professors at the Harvard Law School, and were ordered to reimburse the professors for amounts previously received for the sale of such lecture notes, was reached by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts last month.

The decision was based upon a bill in equity brought by four Harvard Law School professors against three students with the complaint that the latter had been making, publishing and offering for sale notes of class lectures. The defendants were ordered to pay damages varying from $77 to $59 to the plaintiffs. The case was the first of its kind which had come before the courts in this country.