So, it'll be going out. And it will be a best-seller.A judge ruled Wednesday that Simon & Schuster (S&S), the publisher of a memoir by President Trump’s niece, is not bound by a confidentiality agreement she signed, which the president’s brother has cited to block the book's release.
Judge Alan Scheinkman of the New York Supreme Court’s appellate division upheld a restraining order against Mary Trump, which she signed as part of the settlement of the president’s father’s estate.
Scheinkman agreed that “While Ms. Trump unquestionably possesses the same First Amendment expressive rights belonging to all Americans, she also possesses the right to enter into contracts, including the right to contract away her First Amendment rights.”
However, the book publisher has not entered into any such agreement and is thus protected by the First Amendment, he wrote.
The Hill
"It is very good news that the prior restraint against Simon & Schuster has been vacated, and we look forward to filing our brief tomorrow in the trial court explaining why the same result is required as to Ms. Trump, based on the First Amendment and basic contract law," Mary Trump’s lawyer Ted Boutrous said in a statement Wednesday.
The book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man,” is set to publish July 28.
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