Legal Opinion
Brian v. Richardson
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 29, 1995PublishedCited by 184 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Titone, J.
This defamation action concerns an article that was published on the Op Ed page of the New York Times on October 21, 1991. Although plaintiff alleged that the statement falsely accused him of participating in an illegal conspiracy, his complaint was dismissed on the theory that the publication was a nonactionable statement of the author’s opinion. The correctness of this determination depends on the proper application of the principles established in Immuno AG. v Moor-Jankowski (77 NY2d 235, cert denied 500 US 954), in which this Court held that both the…
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