Coakley v. VV Publishing Corp.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Tompkins, J.), entered July 16, 1997, which granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint with prejudice pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7), and directed plaintiffs, jointly and severally, and plaintiffs’ counsel each to pay defendant $500 as a sanction for frivolous conduct, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The IAS Court correctly dismissed with prejudice plaintiffs’ complaint since it was based on allegations that plaintiffs were injured by defendant’s publication in its newspaper of an advertisement submitted by plaintiffs’ sublessee to sell…