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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
What Jozawun said is basically right; there may be a cause of action against Armstrong under the California's Consumer Legal Remedies Act. Basically, if you make certain kinds of false statements in order to sell goods, and people buy the goods in reliance on the false statement, you've violated the act and can be sued.
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Is there any precedent for applying this to an autobiography? If you could apply the law in that way, then you should be able to apply it to any non-fiction book. After all, people are buying the book for the content, so if you can sue because the content is false, you could sue for any non-fiction book that had false contents - and there would be a lot of them.