Doubleday & Company, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Tony Curtis, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant

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• recognizing that the purpose of requiring affirmative defenses to be pleaded in the answer is “to notify a party of the existence of certain issues.”
• finding that publisher’s thorough review and offers of subsequent help demonstrated good faith
• stressing that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure “embody the spirit of fairness”
• where the trial judge based his decision on a theory which would be waived if not pleaded

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