Legal Opinion
Posner v. Lewis
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 21, 2012PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Graffeo, J.
In this tort action, we must decide whether defendants’ course of conduct in instigating complaints to school authorities against plaintiff, a nontenured teacher, is entitled to an absolute privilege under Brandt v Winchell (3 NY2d 628 [1958]) that would warrant dismissal of plaintiffs causes of action for prima facie tort and tortious interference with prospective contractual rights. Assuming the truth of the allegations in the complaint, as we must at this early stage of the litigation, we conclude that defendants’ conduct is not immunized by Brandt.
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2Cases cited8 opinions
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