Legal Opinion
Treppel v. Biovail Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 2, 2008No. 03 Civ. 3002(PKL)(JCF)PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
JAMES C. FRANCIS IV, United States Magistrate Judge.
As discussed in several prior decisions, this case concerns a vendetta between plaintiff Jerry I. Treppel, a securities analyst who claims that his career was destroyed by a smear campaign engineered by the defendants, and Eugene N. Melnyk, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Biovail Corporation (“Biovail”), who contends that Mr. Treppel published false information that defamed him and caused the stock of Biovail to plunge. After two rounds of motions to dismiss, the plaintiffs surviving claims include defamation,…
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