Amodei v. New York State Chiropractic Association

Full title: JOSEPH AMODEI, Appellant, v. NEW YORK STATE CHIROPRACTIC ASSOCIATION et…

Court: Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Mar 26, 1991

77 N.Y.2d 890 (N.Y. 1991)

568 N.Y.S.2d 909

571 N.E.2d 79

Opinion

Argued February 6, 1991

Decided March 26, 1991

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, David H. Edwards, Jr., J.

Howard S. Davis and Barry M. Hoffman for appellant.

Barry G. Saretsky and Scott S. Greenspun for respondents.

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

Plaintiff's 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.