Haynes v. Lemann

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BIGGERS, District Judge.

This cause is presently before the court on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment. Upon due consideration of the motion, the pro se plaintiffs response thereto, the affidavits and the memoranda submitted by the parties, the court is prepared to rule.

This is the plaintiffs second attempt to sue the author and publisher of The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and Haw It Changed America (“The Promised Land”). The defendant Nicholas Lemann wrote the book and it was published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (“Knopf’). The book recounts the Twentieth…