Catalanello v. Kramer

OPINION & ORDER

PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge:

This defamation suit arises out of the treatment by a scholar, both in a law review article and a related lecture, of an incident involving a securities industry trader that had been the subject of a publicized employment lawsuit.

Plaintiff Robert Catalanello (“Catalanel-lo”) is a managing director for Credit Agri-cole CIB (formerly known as Calyon) (“Credit Agricole”) in New York. He *508brings claims of defamation and false-light invasion of privacy against defendant Zachary Kramer (“Kramer”), an associate dean and professor of law at the Sandra…