Legal Opinion
Rinaldi v. Viking Penguin, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 7, 1981PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Fuchsberg, J.
This case for libel, brought by Dominic S. Rinaldi, now a retired New York State Supreme Court Justice, against Viking Penguin, Inc.,1 the publisher of a book entitled “The Abuse of Power”, and its coauthors Jack Newfield and Paul Du Brul, in the main requires us to consider (1) whether, under the relevant circumstances, there can be said to have been a republication of the book sufficient to start the applicable one-year Statute of Limitations running anew (CPLR 215, subd 3) and (2) the standards by which summary judgment may be applied in a public figure…
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