Gustave B. Garfield v. Edmund Palmieri

The plaintiff, an attorney, complained against the defendant, a Judge of the United States Court for the Southern District of New York, for an alleged libel and seeks money damages of a quarter-million dollars. The complaint stemmed from a ruling made in open court during the argument of a motion, as the result of an exchange between counsel concerning the meaning of a statement in a prior opinion of this Court. See Fleischer v. Phillips, 2 Cir. 1959, 264 F.2d 515, 518. Suit was initiated in the Supreme Court of the State of New York and the case was removed, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1442, to…