Attorneys for Milo Yiannopoulos responded to Simon & Schuster’s motion to dismiss his lawsuit against the publisher with a revised version of the original complaint. Most relevantly, the new reply pokes at S&S’s contention that after serving their termination letter, the author “accepted the [signing advance] payment without protest, thereby sealing the accord and satisfaction and barring this lawsuit as a matter of centuries-old law.” Yiannopoulos notes the payment was accepted on or about January 18, when “there was no existing dispute between the parties” and could not “be deemed to be in ‘satisfaction’ of any dispute because none then existed.” No new […]
