Legal Opinion
Yellon v. Lambert
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 24, 2001PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In an action to recover damages for defamation, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Costello, J.), dated September 25, 2000, which granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and denied his cross motion for summary judgment on the issue of fault.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
On April 4, 1999, the defendant New York Times published an article written by the defendant Bruce Lambert entitled “What Happens If Process Server Doesn’t Serve.” The article was written about the plaintiff’s process-serving business…
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