Legal Opinion
Steak Bit of Westbury, Inc. v. Newsday, Inc.
New York Supreme Court
Decided June 22, 1972PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBertram Harnett, J.
The fact that a featured newspaper article likely will never be in the running for the Pulitzer Prize, nor even be a model for a journalism workshop, is excusable. But, can it blithely knock a public restaurant? And in Yiddish, yet?
I. THE PUBLISHED STATEMENTS
An article headed “ The Eat-Out on Old Country Road ” was written by Stan Isaacs, a regular feature columnist for Newsday, a daily Long Island newspaper, and appeared in his May 3, 1971 column. It spun a yam of five couples, dubbed “ The Old Country Road Food and Wine Society Take-Out Restaurant Clambake ”, making a food sampling tour of…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- St. Amant v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Garrison v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. BreslerSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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3Cited by20 opinions
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- Havalunch, Inc. v. MazzaWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1982
- El Meson Espanol v. Nym CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975
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