Citation Numbers： 77 N.Y.2d 890, 571 N.E.2d 79, 568 N.Y.S.2d 909, 1991 N.Y. LEXIS 359
Filed Date： 3/26/1991
Status： Precedential
Modified Date： 10/19/2024
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiffs defamation action was properly dismissed. The words of which he complains could not reasonably have been understood as implying a false assertion of fact.
Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone and Hancock, Jr., concur; Judge Bellacosa taking no part.
Order affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.