Ford v. Levinson

Order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Price, J.), entered March 2, 1982, which in an action seeking damages for libel, converted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint under CPLR 3211 (subd [a], par 7) into a motion for summary judgment and then denied that motion with leave to renew after discovery proceedings, reversed, on the law, with costs, and the motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (subd [a], par 7) is granted. This libel action has its genesis in a newspaper article attributing certain statements to the defendant with regard to an action previously…