Legal Opinion
Silberman v. Antar
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 3, 1997PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to recover damages for defamation, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Huttner, J.), dated October 10, 1995, which granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the defendants’ motion is denied, and the complaint is reinstated.
The defendants failed to prove their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law (see, Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557). The court improperly gave great weight to its own knowledge, based oil personal observation of…
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