Lambert v. Corcoran

—In an action to recover damages for defamation, the plaintiff appeals, on the ground of inadequacy, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Cohalan J.), entered September 23, 1997, as, after a nonjury trial, awarded him nominal damages in the amount of one dollar.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

Since the plaintiff failed to establish that he suffered any compensable financial or emotional injury, or that he sustained any monetary loss in his professional capacity, an award of only nominal damages was not improper (see,…