Legal Opinion
Sprewell v. NYP Holdings, Inc.
New York Supreme Court
Decided June 30, 2003PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Marcy S. Friedman, J.
In this defamation action, plaintiff Latrell Sprewell, a National Basketball Association player for the New York Knickerbockers basketball team (Knicks), sues defendants NYP Holdings, Inc., the publisher of the New York Post, and its sportswriter, Marc Berman, for allegedly libeling him in a series of articles published in October 2002 in the Post. Defendants move, pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7), to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action. j
At issue are four allegedly libelous articles published by the Post on October 4, 5, 7, and…
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