46 Cited authorities

  1. McCarthy v. Dun & Bradstreet Corp.

    482 F.3d 184 (2d Cir. 2007)   Cited 3,276 times
    Holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying leave to amend where "discovery had closed, defendants had filed for summary judgment, and nearly two years had passed since the filing of the original complaint"
  2. Dillon v. City of New York

    261 A.D.2d 34 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)   Cited 868 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "[d]efamation has long been recognized to arise from the making of a false statement which tends to expose the plaintiff to public contempt, ridicule, aversion or disgrace, or induce an evil opinion of him in the minds of right-thinking persons, and to deprive him of their friendly intercourse in society."
  3. Liberman v. Gelstein

    80 N.Y.2d 429 (N.Y. 1992)   Cited 1,016 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding an interloper's statements to the party (potentially slanderous per se because "tend[ing] to injure [the counter-party] in his or her trade, business or profession") could subject the interloper to liability for tortious interference if the party declined to proceed with the transaction on that basis
  4. Celle v. Filipino Reporter Enterprises

    209 F.3d 163 (2d Cir. 2000)   Cited 460 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that to recover in libel under New York law, the plaintiff must establish that the defamatory statement was, among other things, published to a third party through the defendant's negligence or actual malice
  5. Davis v. Boeheim

    2014 N.Y. Slip Op. 7083 (N.Y. 2014)   Cited 286 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Applying New York law
  6. Wanamaker v. Columbian Rope Company

    108 F.3d 462 (2d Cir. 1997)   Cited 480 times
    Holding that denying an employee the use of an office or telephone to conduct a job hunt once he had notice of his termination was not “sufficiently deleterious to constitute adverse employment action prohibited by the ADEA”
  7. Albert v. Loksen

    239 F.3d 256 (2d Cir. 2001)   Cited 419 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a plaintiff must allege "either that the statement complained of caused . . . 'special harm' or that it constituted slander 'per se.'"
  8. Biro v. Nast

    883 F. Supp. 2d 441 (S.D.N.Y. 2012)   Cited 149 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "the use of the terms ‘shyster,’ ‘con man,’ and finding an ‘easy mark’ is the type of rhetorical hyperbole and ‘imaginative expression’ that is typically understood as a statement of opinion"
  9. Pure Power Boot Camp, Inc. v. Warrior Fitness Boot Camp, LLC

    813 F. Supp. 2d 489 (S.D.N.Y. 2011)   Cited 144 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that defendants' violation of SCA was neither willful nor intentional because there was no basis to conclude that defendants were "aware of the statute, or knew that their conduct was otherwise unlawful"
  10. Front, Inc. v. Khalil

    2015 N.Y. Slip Op. 1554 (N.Y. 2015)   Cited 123 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the privilege afforded to pre-litigation communication "should only be applied to statements pertinent to good faith anticipated litigation."
  11. Section 74 - Privileges in action for libel

    N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 74   Cited 394 times   4 Legal Analyses

    A civil action cannot be maintained against any person, firm or corporation, for the publication of a fair and true report of any judicial proceeding, legislative proceeding or other official proceeding, or for any heading of the report which is a fair and true headnote of the statement published. This section does not apply to a libel contained in any other matter added by any person concerned in the publication; or in the report of anything said or done at the time and place of such a proceeding