Caplan v. Winslett
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Wallach, J.
Plaintiff, a former employee of defendant corporations (grain companies), appeals from an order dismissing his complaint which alleged two separate, slanderous utterances: (1) a remark assertedly made by defendant Winslett on April 16, 1993 (words around the courthouse), and (2) remarks assertedly made by plaintiff’s boss, defendant Bigham, on August 25,1992, following plaintiff’s firing (words around the workplace). Defendants cross-appeal from so much of the order as denied the imposition of sanctions for frivolous litigation. The main appeal also requires us…
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