Judge orders Gawker to remove post featuring leaked pages from Palin's book

The injunction prohibits Gawker from “continuing to distribute, publish or otherwise transmit pages from the book” pending a hearing on Nov. 30…

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Gawker defended its action in a post Thursday titled “Sarah Palin is Mad at Us for Leaking Pages From Her Book” and addressed a message to “Sarah” telling her to read pages about fair use under copyright law. “Or skip the totally boring reading and call one of your lawyers,” the post said. “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.”

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