Monthly Archives: February 2006

Random House hit with multiple class actions over Frey’s ‘A Million Little Pieces’

Here’s a little something from Dispatch.com: Frey’s next memoir? ‘A Million Little Subpoenas’ In class-action suits filed in New York, Random House is being accused of gross negligence for its role in James Frey’s embattled memoir, A Million Little Pieces. The suits say the publisher failed to fact-check Frey’s reputed ‘‘brutally honest” account of his…

Kentucky diocese settles for $85M

A Catholic diocese in Kentucky has settled its suit for $85,000,000, according to Enquirer reporter Jim Hannah: A judge approved an $85 million settlement Tuesday in the nation’s only class-action lawsuit pitting sexually abused parishioners against a Roman Catholic diocese. The final agreement with the Covington Diocese falls $35 million short of what was originally…