Legal Opinion
Golub v. Enquirer/Star Group, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 13, 1997PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division dismissing the complaint should be affirmed, with costs.
A statement that plaintiffs’ decedent, a public relations consultant, had cancer was published in the August 27, 1991, issue of defendant’s publication "Star.” Plaintiffs contend that the published statement about decedent having been diagnosed with cancer is defamatory in two respects. First, according to plaintiffs, the nature of cancer is so inextricably intertwined with the thought of impending death that clients would lose confidence in the ability of plaintiffs’…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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