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http://www.onpointnews.com/NEWS/Judge-Gets-Joke-of-Hot-Chicks-with-Douchebags.html

''The “satirical humor” of “Hot Chicks with Douchebags” protects its publisher from being sued by three New Jersey women who are depicted with alleged douchebags in the book, a judge has ruled.

Yvette Gorzelany, Joanna Obiedzinski and Paulina Pakos were all photographed with men at a Clifton, N.J., nightclub in June 2007. After those photographs showed up in “Hot Chicks with Douchebags,” they filed a guilt-by-douchebag-association case against Simon & Schuster –- even though they were not identified anywhere in the book.

“he authors depict these Plaintiffs as females who date dubious men,” the complaint, which alleged infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and defamation, said.

Unlike the thin-skinned plaintiffs, Bergen County (N.J.) Superior Court Judge Menelaos W. Toskos got the joke and summarily dismissed the case, finding author Jay Louis did not make any statements about the women that were “reasonably susceptible to a defamatory meaning.”

“An examination of the entire publication compels the Court to conclude that a reasonable person would determine that the book Hot Chicks With Douchebags is intended to be satirical humor,” Toskos said in a Feb. 6 opinion. “While it may in some eyes be vulgar and tasteless, it definitely is not an assertion of fact that anyone would take seriously.” ''

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