> Unless the woman was already making good money as a writer before the picture, and suddenly wasn't, Google will pay _nothing_.

The suggested plantiff is the misassociated pastor. Google is effectively saying that the pastor wrote the book, which is untrue and Google was notified of this and acknowledged it, and then they started claiming the association again.

This claim is damaging to the pastor in a clear way, and could probably get damages.

I would agree that the author would seem to have a harder case though as damages would be harder to show.