Ranieri v. Lawlor

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Beverly Cohen, J.), entered on or about September 26, 1994 which granted defendants’ cross-motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and denied as moot plaintiff’s motion for a protective order, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

After review of the record, we find that plaintiff’s claims for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress were properly dismissed because such causes of action may not be interposed as a means of circumventing this jurisdiction’s continuing refusal to recognize a cause of action for wrongful…