Publishers Weekly, August 19, 2009
By Andrew Albanese
The Google Book Search settlement has its first heavyweight objection, as author and attorney Scott Gant this morning filed with the court a hard-hitting 50-page objection that claims the sweeping deal is an illegal expansion of class-action law. In a copy of the brief shared with PW, Gant, a Harvard-educated lawyer with more than a decade of class-action litigation experience, and the author of We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in The Internet Age (Free Press), argues that the settlement is a “predominantly commercial transaction,” that “cannot be imposed through the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23,” the order that authorizes class action. [...]
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Scott E. Gant is a partner in the law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Washington, D.C.
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