Legal Opinion
Gross v. New York Times Co.
New York Supreme Court
Decided June 10, 1991PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Elliott Wilk, J.
This is a libel action arising out of a series of articles which *572appeared in the New York Times between January 1985 and February 1986, concerning Elliot Gross’ performance as Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York. The articles focused primarily on the handling of numerous controversial autopsies performed by the Medical Examiner’s office under plaintiff’s supervision.
In a decision dated June 6, 1988, I dismissed the complaint as against defendants Drs. John Grauerholz, Robert Wolf, Joan Obe, Jon Pearl, Siegfried Oppenheim, Faruk Presswala, Cyril…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Guggenheimer v. GinzburgNew York Court of Appeals · 1977
- Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. HeppsSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Rinaldi v. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1977
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Gross v. New York Times Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992