Copp v. Ramirez
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*25OPINION OF THE COURT
Renwick, J.
Plaintiff Copp commenced this defamation action after his tale of courage and sacrifice at Ground Zero was called into question by eyewitnesses to his activities on the rescue site, but not before his tale convinced the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund to award him $649,000. Copp, an out-of-state plaintiff, sued out-of-state defendants Miller, Grace and Linthicum (the last of whom is a reporter for the Albuquerque Journal) for allegedly making defamatory statements in New Mexico to reporters from New York’s NBC Dateline program concerning events they…
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