Lyons v. New American Library, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered January 3, 1980 in Franklin County, which denied a motion by defendant New American Library, Inc., to dismiss the complaint. Plaintiff, Percival C. Lyons, has been the Sheriff of Franklin County since January 1, 1963, with an office at the county seat in Malone, New York. He commenced this libel action based upon a passage which appeared at pages 162 and 163 in the novel .44 written by codefendants Jimmy Breslin and Dick Schaap and published by defendant New American Library, Inc. (NAL). According to the complaint, the novel…
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