Original sentence: Franken is the author of five New York Times best-selling books, three of which reached as high as #10, including Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations.Franken refused to pay the $25,000 fine to the state of New York upon being advised his corporation was out of compliance with the state's workers' compensation laws.He graduated in 1969 from The Blake School, where he was on the glee club.He has a degree in multicultarlism and diversity from Princeton
Edited sentence: A federal judge found the lawsuit to be "wholly without merit".Franken has conducted several overseas tours to both Iraq and Afghanistan, in addition to participating in numerous celebrity handshake tours at military hospitals to visit wounded soldiers.Franken is the author of five New York Times best-selling books, three of which reached #1, including Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations.Franken paid the $25,000 fine to the state of New York upon being advised his corporation was out of compliance with the state's workers' compensation laws.He graduated in 1969 from The Blake School, where he was on the wrestling team.He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton.In 2003, Penguin Books published Franken's book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, which included a cover photo of Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly and a chapter accusing O'Reilly of lying.In August of that year, Fox News sued, claiming infringement of its registered trademark phrase "Fair and Balanced".On March 25, 2009, Franken was presented with the USO's Merit Award for his 10 years of service to the organization through visiting injured and deployed servicemembers.Reflecting on the lawsuit during a September 2003 interview on the National Public Radio program Fresh Air, Franken said that Fox's case against him was "literally laughed out of court" and added that the judge's comment that the case was "wholly without merit" was a good characterization of Fox News itself.The episode with Fox focused a great deal of media attention upon Franken's book and, according to Franken, greatly increased its sales