'Inferential Leap' Kills Academic Researchers' Conspiracy Suit

By Bryan Koenig ( January 30, 2026, 7:48 PM EST) -- A New York federal judge took a proposed class of academic researchers to task Friday, permanently dismissing their lawsuit accusing six of academia's largest journal publishers of colluding to stifle their leverage and eliminate pay for peer review work, finding that the publishers' rules being contested do nothing of the sort....

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