Legal Opinion
Nader v. General Motors Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 13, 1969PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMcGivern, J.
The plaintiff, an author and a lecturer on automotive. safety, by his activities has become a gadfly to the automobile manufacturers. The defendant General Motors, learning of the imminent publication of his book, “ Unsafe At Any Speed ”, authorized other defendants to undertake a thorough unveiling of him. The scrutiny and the surveillance of the plaintiff, carried on by the defendants’ operatives, were characterized by such uninhibited gusto that the culmination was an *393apology tendered him before a Senatorial Investigating Committee. This, however apparently was not sufficient to assuage…
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