Posner v. New York Law Publishing Co.

The motion court correctly held that the article published in defendant newspaper was a substantially accurate report of the decision it published on the case of Matter of Posner (Central Synagogue) (NYLJ, Oct. 28, 1993, at 28, col 6, affd 202 AD2d 284, lv dismissed 83 NY2d 953), and therefore privileged under Civil Rights Law § 74 (Holy Spirit Assn. v New York Times Co., 49 NY2d 63, 67). The minor inaccuracies in the article cited by plaintiff do not make it otherwise (see, supra, at 68; Gurda v Orange County Pubis. Div., 56 NY2d 705, revg on opn below 81 AD2d 120, 133; Ford v Levinson, 90…