Legal Opinion
Cassidy v. Gannett Co.
New York Supreme Court
Decided March 27, 1940PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtVan Voorhis, J.
The defendant’s motion to dismiss the action upon the pleadings depends upon whether a newspaper article appearing in a column entitled “ The Washington Merry-Go-Round ” is libelous per se. It states:
GHOST REPORTS.
“ Members of the TVA investigating committee are secretly probing an inside tip that the two minority reports panning the management of the great power project are the work of a pair of utility ghost writers.
“ They are Paul 0. Peters, reported to have written the official blast signed by Senator James Davis of Pennsylvania and Rep. Charles A. Wolverton of New Jersey, and Col. James…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Sanderson v. . CaldwellNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Sydney v. MacFadden Newspaper Publishing Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1926
- Hoeppner v. Dunkirk Printing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1930
- Milliken v. Western Union Telegraph Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Cafferty v. . Southern Tier Publishing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1919
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3Cited by9 opinions
- November v. Time Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1963
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- Gjonlekaj v. SotAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
- Shenkman v. O'MalleyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1956
- Rosenfeld v. Curtis Pub. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1947
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