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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a September 2009 injunction barring publication of Swedish author Fredrik Colting's 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, which lawyers for author J D Salinger argued was an illegal, "unauthorised sequel" to The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger's legal team now have 10 days to seek a temporary injunction, otherwise the preliminary ban will be lifted, possibly paving the way for Colting's book, published last year in Europe, to come out in a US edition. The case, however, is far from over. At the direction of the Second Circuit, the District Court will now reconsider its preliminary injunction. If the court decides not to reissue a preliminary injunction, the case could then proceed to trial.PW

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