Bader v. Siegel

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered March 15, 1996, which granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

All four of plaintiffs’ causes of action are based upon defendant’s statements, made in enrollment materials and during class meetings of defendant’s self-improvement / lifestyle course known as "The Conversation”, that he would "provide, by embodying 'The Vocabulary of The Conversationan example of executive capacity at self-government in action”. Upon the basis of this statement…