Bookstores again requested to hand over purchase information

From: Baker, Brian L. (bbaker@law.udc.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 13:58:23 PDT


Colleagues,

You may remember a couple of years ago when Kenneth Starr tried to get a
Washington, DC bookseller, Kramer Books, to turn over the purchase records
of Monica Lewinsky. There was a large hue and cry from librarians.

It is happening again.

see http://www.newsday.com/ap/topnews/ap377.htm for an article about a book
seller in Colorado being forced to turn over purchase records by a Federal
Judge.

This is, IMHO, wrong.

Brian

Brian L. Baker, JD, MLS
Director of the Law Library & Assistant Professor of Law
UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
bbaker@law.udc.edu www.law.udc.edu
202-274-7354 Fax: 202-274-7311
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