A memo circulated around the "lofty" New York Times


Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:07:03 -0400
To: "News Exec":;
From: Michaela Williams
Subject: Tasini plaintiffs

Sept. 18, 2001

Folks:

I'm sending this list around again, just in case it didn't reach you earlier. Please see that relevant assigning editors and backfield editors and clerks get copies.

Our lawyers recommend that the newspaper not engage any of the below named plaintiffs to write for the newspaper.

These are the original named plaintiffs in the Tasini lawsuit:
Jonathan Tasini
Barbara Belejack
Mary Kay Blakely
Barbara Garson
Daniel Lazare
Margot Mifflin
Joan Oleck
Sonia Jaffe Robbins
Lindsy Van Gelder
David S. Whitford
H. Bruce Franklin

Named plaintiffs in a class action suit filed by the Authors Guild against The Times:
Derek Bell
Lynn Brenner

Thanks, Michaela