Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 136 S. Ct. 1979 (2016)
Eric P. Garcia · Digital Commons-DePaul (DePaul University) · 2019
Kirtsaeng"), a citizen of Thailand, emigrated to the United States to study mathematics at Cornell University.' Upon finding that textbooks sold by John Wiley & Sons ("Wiley"), an academic publishing company, were available in Thailand for a fraction of the cost compared to those sold in the United States, Kirtsaeng asked family and friends to purchase the foreign editions from Thai bookstores and ship them to him. 2 He then sold the textbooks to American students, reimbursed his suppliers for the cost, and kept a healthy profit.3