Wall Street Transcript Corp. v. Ziff Communications Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Plaintiff failed to state a cause of action against defendants for inducing its attorneys to breach their fiduciary duty, as the pleading did not state in detail the circumstances constituting the wrong, as required by CPLR 3016 (b) (see, Holoness Realty Corp. v New York Prop. Ins. Underwriting Assn., 75 AD2d 569, 570). We also note that all the allegations concerning the inducement of that breach are pleaded "upon information and belief’, without disclosing the source of information that forms the basis of that belief (see, Belco Petroleum Corp. v AIG Oil Rig, 164 AD2d 583, 598-599).
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