Legal Opinion
Steinhilber v. Alphonse
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 23, 1986PublishedCited by 286 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Hancock, Jr., J.
It is a settled rule that expressions of an opinion "false or not, libelous or not, are constitutionally protected and may not be the subject of private damage actions” (Rinaldi v Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 42 NY2d 369, 380, cert denied 434 US 969). The question here is whether the Appellate Division has properly applied this rule in dismissing plaintiff’s defamation action under CPLR 3211 (a) (7) upon the ground that the two allegedly defamatory communications, complained of in separate causes of action, are pure opinions and, as such, not actionable as a…
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