Legal Opinion
Ingber v. Mallilo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 10, 2008PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In an action to recover damages for defamation, the defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Tanenbaum, J.), dated September 19, 2007, which denied their motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action.
*570Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff is former counsel and the defendants are current counsel to nonparty Rodrigo Lezcano in an unrelated litigation to recover damages for personal injuries. After a dispute arose over the plaintiffs fee, the defendants moved to compel him to turn over the…
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