Contact:   Ram Avrahami
                                 Address:   P.O. Box 5339
                                            Arlington, VA 22205
                                 Telephone: (703) 908-9125
                                 Facsimile: (703) 908-0186
                                 Email:     avrahami@gramercy.ios.com


              AVRAHAMI - US NEWS TRIAL DELAYED AGAIN

     ARLINGTON, FEB. 6, 1996  -- In a surprising move, without request by
either side, Judge Karen Henenberg ruled its court out of jurisdiction over
Virginia Statute 8.01-40, and thus over the case of Ram Avrahami v. U.S.
News & World Report. The move, initiated by Judge Henenberg before any other
motion was discussed, relates to an antiquated legal distinction in Virginia
between Courts of Equity and Courts of Law. 

After hearing some arguments, noting that the issue is not clear having no
past similar cases, Judge Henenberg ruled that the District Court does not
have jurisdiction over the Statute and is thus unable to rule on merits of
the case. Avrahami's Counsel, Jonathan Dailey, said that the court's
interpretation was erroneous, since the statute provides for a remedy at law
to recover money damages.

The decision surprised people in the courtroom, many of them from the Direct
Marketing Association, since in November Judge Henenberg ruled that she does
have jurisdiction over the case and denied a request to delay the motion
until higher court rules on a counter motion by U.S. News against Avrahami,
based on the same statute. That motion is scheduled for trial on June 6.
Avrahami's motion may need to get to that court as well after today's ruling.

Ram Avrahami said that he is considering all options so as to best advance
his case. He said that he is sorry for the delay and will need to factor in
the additional expenses of another court. "However," he added, "The legal
technicalities seen today are irrelevant to the merit of the case, which is
the question why a magazine can sell the name of its subscribers without
permission. This question will have to be answered eventually, and nothing
that happened until now caused me to worry about the eventual outcome."

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Ram Avrahami is represented by the Law Offices of Jonathan C. Dailey in
Washington D.C. (telephone 202-496-1290, fax 202-496-9620).
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Information about the case may be obtained on the world wide web from the
Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC
(http://www.epic.org/privacy/junk_mail/)

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