Legal Opinion
Yan v. Potter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 29, 2003PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for defamation, *843the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Price, J.), dated October 11, 2002, as granted that branch of the defendant’s motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the cause of action alleging defamation.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
Truth is an absolute defense to a cause of action based on defamation (see Carlton v Nassau County Police Dept., 306 AD2d 365 [2003]; Heins v Board of Trustees of Inc. Vil. of Greenport,…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Zuckerman v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
- Liberman v. GelsteinNew York Court of Appeals · 1992
- Carlton v. Nassau County Police DepartmentAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
- Jung Hee Lee Han v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
- Heins v. Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of GreenportAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
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