Klepetko v. Reisman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In an action to recover damages for libel, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Smith, J.), dated January 23, 2006, which granted the defendants’ motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff commenced this action to recover damages for allegedly defamatory statements made in a column in a daily newspaper. The column stated, inter alia, that the plaintiff was “cowardly,” an “idiotic menace,” and that he lived with another middle-aged man,…
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