Moreira-Brown v. City of New York

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mary Ann BriganttiHughes, J), entered March 25, 2011, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Summary judgment was properly granted in this matter where plaintiff, a public figure, alleges that defendant Detective Rivera made false and defamatory statements about him to the press. The record demonstrates that all of the statements attributed to Rivera about plaintiff were true, namely, that plaintiff was being sought for questioning; that repeated efforts to locate plaintiff had…