Legal Opinion
Chau v. Lewis
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 29, 2013No. 11-CV-1333 (GBD)PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER
GEORGE B. DANIELS, District Judge.
Plaintiffs Wing F. Chau and Harding Advisory LLC commenced this action against Defendants Michael Lewis, Steven Eisman, and W.W. Norton & Company, alleging that Defendants committed libel by publishing twenty-six defamatory statements about Plaintiffs in Lewis’s 2010 book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. Plaintiffs seek compensatory and punitive damages for the alleged defamation. Defendants each move for summary judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (“Fed. R. Civ. P.”) 56.
Defendants’ summary judgment…
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