Dougherty v. Flanagan

— In an action, inter alla, for defamation, (1) the defendant law firm of Flanagan, Kelly, Ronan, Spollen & Stewart (hereinafter the defendant firm), purportedly appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Luciano, J.), entered June 26, 1987, as denied that branch of its motion which was to dismiss the plaintiffs’ second cause of action, and (2) the plaintiffs cross-appeal from so much of the same order as granted those branches of the defendant firm’s motion which were to dismiss their first, third, fourth and fifth causes of action.

Ordered that the appeal is…