Original sentence: Cornwell successfully obtained a preliminary injunction against Dr Sachs (who was unrepresented by counsel) to prevent him from placing the stickers and requiring their removal by booksellers.Dr Leslie Sachs, author of The Virginia Ghost Murders (1998), detected similarities between his novel and Cornwell's forthcoming novel The Last Precinct.In 2000 he sent letters to Cornwell's publisher, started a page on the World Wide Web, and placed stickers on his novel in order to claim that Cornwell was committing plagiary.Sachs decided to go abroad where he was unaffected by the injunction, and has continued to assert that Cornwell plagiarized his work
Edited sentence: In 2000, Cornwell successfully obtained a preliminary injunction against a Dr.Leslie Sachs, who had been making claims on the Internet that Cornwell's then-forthcoming novel, The Last Precinct, was plagiarized from his own book, The Virginia Ghost Murders.Reports by neutral observers indicate that the resemblance between the two works, if any, is extremely weak and certainly coincidental.Sachs failed to comply with the injunction, fled the country, and continued his Internet-based campaign of harassment against Cornwell