Legal Opinion
Mann v. Abel
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 25, 2008PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Pigott, J.
This action for libel arises out of an article published on August 22, 2003 in the Westmore News, an independent newspaper serving the Town of Rye. The newspaper’s founder, defendant Bernard Abel, wrote the article as part of his regularly featured column called “The Town Crier.” The column is located on the opinion page of the newspaper and is identified by an editor’s note that it represents the opinion of the author and “not necessarily that of this newspaper.”
The article at issue, entitled “Borrelli on par with Marie Antoinette” (referring to Rye Town…
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