August 25, 2003

Franken 2, Fox 0

CNN.com - Fox drops lawsuit over Franken book - Aug. 25, 2003

Monday, the cable news network withdrew the underlying lawsuit in a one-page court filing.

"It's time to return Al Franken to the obscurity he's normally accustomed to," a Fox spokeswoman later told CNN.

Floyd Abrams, the lead attorney for Franken and his publisher, Penguin Group, told CNN, "Fox's decision to abandon its efforts at interfering with the sale of Al Franken's new book is welcome, if overdue. The case never should have been brought."

It's only logical that Fox would drop the suit after the drubbing they took in court the other day, but it sure feels good to get to post about it :)

As for the effects of the suit? Penguin, Franken's publisher, now has 510,000 copies of the book printed - up 210,000 from the initial 300,000 it had shipped for the speeded-up release.

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