From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 11:35:11 -0500
Please note my recommendation in response:
> How about all those scholars whose names have been used by OMICS without their permission to promote its business get together and file a class action suit against OMICS for misappropriation--and ask for, maybe, $2 billion in recompense?
Sandy Thatcher
> From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 09:22:45 -0400
>
> Indian publisher OMICS reported in Chronicle of Higher Education to be
> threatening blogger Jeffrey Beall with lawsuit and criminal
> prosecution, seeking $1B damages and prison time, presumably in the
> Indian judicial system. An article quoting the publisher's letter is
> in the CHE article, not behind a paywall:
>
> http://chronicle.com/article/Publisher-Threatens-to-Sue/139243/
>
> Jim O'Donnell
> Georgetown U.