in a pre-"feist" case, west's citation copyright claim had been affirmed by the u.s. court of appeals for the eighth circuit in a preliminary injunction case in 1986 brought by west against mead data, owner of lexis. "west v. mead" (1986); however, in a case commenced in 1994 in the u.s. district court for the southern district of new york, the u.s. court of appeals for the second circuit found "feist" to have undermined the reasoning in "west v. mead". west's citation claims were challenged in 1994 by legal publisher, matthew bender & company and by a small cd-rom publisher hyperlaw, inc. hyperlaw intervened, joining matthew bender in the citation challenge and separately challenging west's text copyright claims. west was found by the second circuit in 1998 not to have a protectable copyright interest in its citations; neither to the first page citations nor to its internal pagination citations. see "matthew bender v. west", citation appeal. the second circuit thereby rejected the 1996 determination of a minnesota district court in "oasis publishing co. v. west publishing co.", 924 f.supp. 918 (d. minn. 1996), that the outcome of "west" is not changed by "feist".