CDN Inc. v. Kapes
197 F.3d 1256 (9th Cir. 1999) - full text opinion
Kenneth Kape's website has
long since disappeared, but thanks to the Internet Archive, you can see what it looked like back in early 1998, before the 9th Circuit's opinion. CDN, Inc. is still around, and they continue to publish the same price guides Kape subscribed to.
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