Ritzcovan v. Burger

—In related actions to recover damages for defamation, the plaintiff in Action No. 1, Robert Ritzcovan, appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Orange County (Slobod, J.), entered September 5, 1997, which, upon so much of an order of the same court dated August 26, 1997, as granted that branch of the defendant’s motion which was for summary judgment *394dismissing his complaint, dismissed his complaint and awarded the defendant costs and disbursements, and the plaintiff in Action No. 2, Donald Sampson, appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of the order dated August 26, 1997, as…