Sethi v. Morrissey

*834In an action to recover damages for defamation, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Bucaria, J.), entered February 9, 2012, which granted the defendants’ motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 to dismiss the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Contrary to the plaintiff’s contention, the Supreme Court properly directed dismissal of the complaint as time-barred (see CPLR 3211 [a] [5]). The statute of limitations for an action to recover damages for defamation is one year (see CPLR 215 [3]), measured from the date of publication of the allegedly…