Legal Opinion
Leary v. DiBlasi
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 22, 1998PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to recover damages for defamation, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (O’Brien, J.), dated May 15, 1997, which granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for defa*551mation based upon a handwritten remark which the defendant inserted in his response to a customer satisfaction questionnaire sent to him by Mercedes Benz North America (hereinafter MBNA). The defendant stated, inter alia, that the dealership of which…
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