November 19, 2018
A California federal judge on Monday dismissed Random House from a suit claiming the author of the bestselling novel "The Girls" copied it from her ex-boyfriend using secretly installed spyware on his computer, but let some of the author's counterclaims move forward.
January 30, 2018
Best-selling author Emma Cline on Monday urged a California federal judge to dismiss her ex-boyfriend's suit alleging she used spyware on his laptop to copy his work for her novel, saying the suit is just "the latest step in a yearslong abusive campaign."
November 30, 2017
Best-selling author Emma Cline and her ex-boyfriend filed clashing lawsuits in California federal court Wednesday, surfacing a bitter private fight in which the novelist's former lover accuses her of using spyware to steal and plagiarize his works, charges she forcefully denies.