Ashby v. ALM Media
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ellen M. Coin, J.), entered on or about May 18, 2012, which granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Defendant Whittle’s statement that plaintiff was “deliberately sabotaging” defendant ALM Media, LLC’s IT redesign project was protected by the common-interest privilege because it constituted a communication “made to persons who have some common interest in the subject matter” (Foster v Churchill, 87 NY2d 744, 751 [1996]), namely, the people working on the IT system redesign. The statement is also protected…
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