Pages from Sarah Palin's upcoming tome, 'America by Heart,' which were featured on Gawker.com ordered pulled by judge. Sarah Palin's "America by Heart" is nothing to gawk at. For now, anyway.
A judge has ordered Gawker.com to pull down pages it featured from the former Alaskan governor's upcoming book.
According to the injunction, the website must immediately cease "continuing to distribute, publish or otherwise transmit pages from the book" pending a hearing on Nov. 30.
Gawker has apparently complied, and did so in a very un-Gawker-like fashion, without a witty retort.
The tongue-in-cheek site, which mixes news and gossip and was one of several sites to post images of the book’s pages, was initially defiant when Palin complained about the leak last week. It refused to pull the pages even after receiving a letter demanding it do so, Palin's lawsuit said.
The Fox News commentator wrote via Twitter on Thursday, "the publishing world is LEAKING out-of-context excerpts of my book w/out my permission? Isn't that illegal?"
Gawker responded in a post of its own, with a title, "Sarah Palin is Mad at Us for Leaking Pages From Her Book." In the post it added, "or skip the totally boring reading and call one of your lawyers. They'll walk you through it."
HarperCollins filed a legal complaint Friday in federal court asking that the site be banned from what it termed "further copyright infringement."
According to the leaked pages, Palin attacks President Obama and "American Idol," and defends the Tea Party movement against claims of racism.
With News Wire Services
msheridan@nydailynews.com; or follow him at Twitter.com/NYDNSheridan
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