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I am an attorney with the law firm of Jenner & Block LLP. We
represent Linda Sarsour. It has come to my client’s attention
that you have made available for sale a book entitled “A Jihad
Grows in Brooklyn” (the “Book”). You have represented to
consumers and the public more generally that the Book
contains the first-person “confessions” of my client, and have
represented that my client is the author of the Book. However,
as you are no doubt aware, my client had absolutely no
involvement with the drafting, publication, or distribution of
the Book, and, critically, she did not authorize its publication
or approve its defamatory contents, which are designed to
harm her and her family’s reputation.
Your publication and distribution of the Book violates
numerous state and federal laws.
First, your conduct violates Section 43 of the Lanham Act, 15
U.S.C. § 1051. In particular, your representation that my client
is the author of the Book constitutes unlawful “passing off,”
Waldman Pub. Corp. v. Landoll, Inc., 43 F.3d 775, 780 (2d Cir.
1994), as well as product infringement, see, e. g., Sun Trading
Distributing Co. v. Evidence Music, 1nc., 980 F. Supp. 722, 727
(S.D.N.Y. 1997).
Second, your conduct constitutes libel, as the Book is replete
with false and defamatory statements about my client. In fact,
the vast majority of the contents of Book constitute, by
definition, false statements, as they are held out to be
statements by Ms. Sarsour when they are not. In addition,
many of the statements, likely to be perceived to be the firstperson
utterances of my client, cause her serious and
irreparable harm. For example, on page 41 of the Book, you
write the following statement, purporting to come directly
from Ms. Sarsour: “The Jews are a sick race: The Jewish pond