Legal Opinion
Pappalardo v. Westchester Rockland Newspapers, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 14, 1984PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In a libel action, defendants appeal from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Walsh, J.), dated December 8, 1982, as denied their motion to dismiss the complaint. H Order affirmed, insofar as appealed from, with costs. 11 In his complaint, Dr. Pappalardo alleged that an 11,700-word article entitled “Bad Machine, Is There a Remedy”, which appeared in the Journal-News of Rockland County, defamed his professional competence. Although the complaint otherwise is rather sparse, it does contain the article as an exhibit. Defendants’ motion to dismiss was grounded on the…
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