MARCINKUS v. NAL PUBL.


138 Misc.2d 256 (1987)

Paul Marcinkus, Plaintiff, v. Nal Publishing Inc. et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court, New York County.

December 3, 1987


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey (Alan M. Gelb of counsel), for plaintiff. Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz for defendants.


ETHEL B. DANZIG, J.

Does a work of fiction, which concededly uses the real name and office of plaintiff (as well as others), purportedly to give the novel "a sense of historical accuracy", run afoul of New York's right to privacy statute?

Plaintiff, an Archbishop in the Roman Catholic Church, moves for an injunction restraining defendants, the book's publisher and distributor, from using plaintiff's...

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