Legal Opinion
Rappaport v. VV Publishing Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 30, 1996PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol H. Arber, J.), entered on or about October 31, 1994, which granted defendants’ motion to dismiss .a defamation complaint for failure to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The IAS Court properly concluded that the challenged passages in the newspaper articles are not actionable. The statements regarding the allegedly disproportionate assignment of cases involving police misconduct to plaintiff, a Kings County Supreme Court Justice, are not reasonably susceptible of a defamatory meaning (see, Aronson v Wiersma, 65 NY2d 592,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Rinaldi v. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1977
- Gross v. New York Times Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1993
- Rappaport v. VV Publishing Corp.New York Supreme Court · 1994
3Cited by15 opinions
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- Kendall v. Daily News Publishing Co.Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands · 2011
- Locke v. Aston, M.D.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
- Gilliam v. Richard M. Greenspan, P.C.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005
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