Legal Opinion
Polakoff v. Hill
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 2, 1941PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCallahan, J.
Plaintiff is an attorney at law who represented one Charles Luciano, a defendant in a criminal prosecution, the details of which prosecution, including the names of counsel for the defense, received very wide notice in the public press.
Defendant Hill, a radio commentator, several months after the Luciano case was finished, was conducting a news broadcast over the network of the defendant Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., at the instance of the defendant American Tobacco Company. Hill was commenting on the career of Thomas E. Dewey, district attorney of New York county. In describing Dewey’s…
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