https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/01/media/mary-trump-book-reliable-sources/index.html
Bad news for President Trump and his younger brother, Robert Trump, who has been trying to block an unflattering tell all book by the President's niece, Mary Trump, that Simon & Schuster is set to publish in July.
On Wednesday evening, a New York appellate court lifted the temporary restraining order against
Simon & Schuster, a decision that allows the publisher to move
forward with printing copies of the book and shipping them to retailers.
The court left the temporary restraining order in place for Mary Trump
until a hearing on July 10.
Make
no mistake: This is a blow to Robert Trump's attempt to block the book.
Simon & Schuster had already said that it had printed 75,000 copies
of the book and shipped copies to booksellers. By July 10's hearing,
the publisher will be further along in its preparation for publishing
the book on its scheduled release date of July 28. In other words, the
horse will be that much closer to being out of the barn.
The
appellate court also noted that "while parties are free to enter into
confidentiality agreements, courts are not necessarily obligated to
specifically enforce them" and said that such agreements are
"alternatively enforceable through the impassion of money damages." The
suggestion that money damages might be a way to resolve the legal
dispute, instead of an injunction, also doesn't appear to bode well for
Robert Trump's case...
