A Million Little Plaintiffs: unsurprising update

WSJ Law Blog: “As surely as day follows night, a class-action lawsuit was filed Friday against James Frey and Random House over Frey’s alleged lies in his best-selling memoir ‘A Million Little Pieces.’” Christine Hurt comments. Overlawyered readers had the story before it happened.

Filed under: class actions, publishers

By Ted Frank
January 17, 2006
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“Media reform” and campaign finance law

They operate as a pincer movement, contends Brian Anderson in City Journal, and they’re both aimed at choking off certain unwelcome (if popular) points of view in public discussion. (“The Plot to Shush Rush and…
- January 18, 2006 11:28 AM
- By Overlawyered
James Frey learns we live in a litigious society

Smoking Gun exposes Oprah book club anointee James Frey as a fraudster. Oprah doesn’t care whether the book is true. I’m not surprised. As Queen of the Self-Help and Actualization Movement (SHAM), and enabler-in-chief of the culture of narcissism, she’ll
- January 19, 2006 8:22 PM
- By ProfessorBainbridge.com
Welcome Forbes.com readers

I’m quoted and this site is mentioned by a Daniel Fisher Forbes.com article on the James Frey class action litigation. (“A Million Little Lawsuits Over Frey”, Jan. 30). The article refers to our January 12…
- January 30, 2006 11:47 PM
- By Overlawyered