Legal Opinion
Breen v. Leonard
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 22, 1993PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to recover damages for defamation, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Becker, J.), entered July 10, 1991, which granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the motion is denied.
The plaintiff is a certified nurse-midwife. In 1989 she delivered a baby girl at the patient’s home as part of her home birth practice. The defendant, a pediatrician, who first saw the infant a few days later, observed that the infant was jaundiced and instructed the…
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