An appeals court in New York ruled that Simon and Schuster can publish the tell-all memoir from President Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, the New York Times reports.
Judge Alan D. Scheinkman overturned a lower court’s decision that temporarily enjoined Simon and Schuster from releasing the book, titled Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. The lawsuit had been brought against Mary Trump and her publisher by the president’s brother, Robert Trump.
Robert Trump contended that Mary Trump had signed a nondisclosure agreement that the book would violate. But Scheinkman ruled that since Simon and Schuster hadn’t signed the agreement, they’re not obligated to abide by it.
CNN reports that Scheinkman wrote in his ruling that “while parties are free to enter into confidentiality agreements, courts are not necessarily obligated to specifically enforce them.”
Simon and Schuster told the court that the company had already printed 75,000 copies of the book, and that some of those had already been shipped to booksellers.
“We support Mary L. Trump’s right to tell her story in Too Much and Never Enough, a work of great interest and importance to the national discourse that fully deserves to be published for the benefit of the American public,” the publisher said in a response to Scheinkman’s ruling.
Too Much and Never Enough is slated for publication on July 28.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
