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


                 AVRAHAMI - US NEWS TRIAL THIS THURSDAY

     ARLINGTON, JUNE. 4, 1996  -- Thursday, June 6, is scheduled for the long
awaited court hearings on the merits of the legal dispute between Ram
Avrahami and US News & World Report. The case focuses around the questions
of who owns personal information and whether a magazine has the right to
sell the names of its subscribers without having first obtained the explicit
written permission to do so.

The case started last summer when Ram Avrahami, an Arlington, Virginia
resident, filed a suit against US News for trading his name to the
Smithsonian, which used the information to send him mail solicitation. The
Arlington County District Court dismissed itself from hearing the case last
February, on the grounds that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the
relevant statute (VA Code 8.01-40), and Avrahami filed a new suit in the
Arlington County Circuit Court. The new motion asks for compensation for all
the times that US News traded his name, as well as $5,000 punitive damages
and a court order to restrain US News from commercially using his name in
the future.

At the same time, US News, which had separately asked the Circuit Court for a
judgment that declares the trading of mailing lists as legal, amended its
motion to reflect its finding that Avrahami subscribed to the magazine under
a slightly misspelled name (Ram Avrahani). US News claims that it did not
trade Avrahami's name at all, but only the name Ram Avrahani.

Both sides agreed to consolidate the cases (Law #95-1318 and Chancery
#96-203), and the combined case is scheduled to be heard in the Arlington
County Circuit Court this Thursday, June 6, at 10am. (1425 North Courthouse
Road, Arlington; Tel: 703- 358-7010; Metro: Orange line, Courthouse station).

Ram Avrahami said before the trial that he is confident in his case, that he
hopes for a substantive discussion on the merits of the case, and that he
expects a favorable ruling from the court.
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Ram Avrahami is represented by Bruce Davis and Patrick Murphy from the Law
Offices of Bean, Kinney & Korman in Arlington, VA (telephone 703-525-4000)
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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/)