Richman v. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.

The plaintiff here sues individually and alleges that he has been defamed in his business by the article written by the individual defendant and published by the New York Herald Tribune, the codefendant. It will be assumed for the purposes of this motion that the context of the defamatory matter is libelous per se; that is, to say wrongfully of the plaintiff’s hospital that it wrangles over the qualifications of an emergency patient to receive succor, on the premise that the nature of the wrangling is at least equivocal, and therefore, a matter for the jury.

*564As to the individual defendant, it…