NY Post
They want more than just peanuts.
A group of disgruntled readers filed a $5 million-plus suit against former President Jimmy Carter today over his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
The Manhattan federal court filing claims the 2006 best-seller "is filled with demonstrable falsehoods, omissions and knowing misrepresentations intended to promote Carter’s agenda of anti-Israel propaganda."
The class-action suit charges the Nobel Peace Prize winner and publisher Simon & Schuster with breach of contract, unjust enrichment and deceit for promoting the $27 hard-cover "as a work of non-fiction."
"This lawsuit challenges the defendants’ actions in attempting to capitalize on Carter’s status as a former president of the United States to mislead unsuspecting members of the reading public who thought they could trust their former president to tell the truth," court papers say.
Carter’s press secretary didn’t return a request for comment, but Simon & Schuster called the suit "frivolous" and "without merit."
"It is a chilling attack on free speech that we intend to defend vigorously," spokesman Adam Rothberg said.
Jimmy Carter sued for alleged deceptions, fraud against Israel
In a first-of-its-kind legal battle, a former U.S. President, as well as Nobel Peace Prize winner, is being sued for alleged deceptions and fraudulent statements against the State of Israel
The plaintiffs, who hope to have the case certified as a class action, are members of the reading public who purchased Carter's book expecting that they were buying an accurate and factual record of historic events concerning Israel and the Palestinian Arabs.
The class action lawsuit accuses Carter -- who holds himself out as a Middle-East expert -- and his publisher of intentionally promulgating untrue and inaccurate information and sought to capitalize on the author's notoriety as a former U.S. President to mislead unsuspecting members of the public.
The complaint alleges that the defendants' misrepresentations, all highly critical of Israel, violate New York consumer protection laws, specifically New York General Business Law section 349, which makes it unlawful to engage in deceptive acts in the course of conducting business. While acknowledging Carter's right to publish his personal views, the plaintiffs assert that the defendants violated the law and, thus, harmed those who purchased the book.
The suit is the first time a former President and a publishing house have been sued for violating consumer protection laws by knowingly publishing inaccurate information while promoting a book as factual...
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Press TV
Former President Jimmy Carter has become the target of a class action lawsuit over apparently mean things he said about Israel in his best-selling 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
The lawsuit, filed in New York by an Israeli firm, alleges that the book "contained numerous false and knowingly misleading statements intended to promote the author's agenda of anti-Israel propaganda and to deceive the reading public instead of presenting accurate information as advertised."
The five American plaintiffs, two of whom are dual citizens of the U.S. and Israel, seek $5 million in damages over the book on the basis that its criticisms of Israel violated consumer protection safeguards...
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Jimmy Carter being sued for alleged falsehoods
NEW YORK – A $5 million lawsuit filed in federal court in New York on Tuesday against former US President Jimmy Carter and publisher Simon & Schuster alleges that Carter’s 2006 book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid contains false information and was intended to deceive the public and promote an anti-Israel agenda.
The five plaintiffs in the suit, readers of the book, want their lawsuit, which seeks compensatory and punitive damages, to be deemed a class action, meaning that the plaintiffs would be seen to represent a much larger group – that is, everyone who purchased Carter’s $27 book.
The plaintiffs are Americans, with two of the five holding dual American-Israeli citizenship...
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Does Jimmy Carter Deserve To Be Sued?
He doesn’t deserve censorship. But he does deserve the hassle.
National Review
by Mona Charen
In a suit filed in federal court in New York, former president Jimmy Carter, along with his publisher, Simon and Schuster, is being sued by five readers of his 2006 book Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid. The suit alleges that the defendants violated New York’s consumer-protection laws by committing “deceptive acts in the conduct of business, trade, or commerce.” The plaintiffs, who hope to be considered a class, were “members of the reading public who thought they could trust a former president of the United States and a well-established book publisher to tell the truth.”
Does Carter deserve this trouble? Oh yes, he deeply, richly deserves it. Should the suit prevail? More on that in a moment...
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