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NADER v. GEN. MOTORS

31 A.D.2d 392 (1969)

Ralph Nader, Respondent, v. General Motors Corporation, Appellant, et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

March 13, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Kleinbard of counsel (Allan A. Tuttle with him on the brief; Paul, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, attorneys), for appellant.

Alfred W. Gans of counsel (Stuart M. Speiser and Paul D. Rheingold with him on the brief; Speiser Shumate Geoghan Krause & Rheingold, attorneys), for respondent.

CAPOZZOLI and NUNEZ, JJ., concur with McGIVERN, J.; STEUER, J., dissents in opinion in which EAGER, J. P., concurs.

McGIVERN, J.

The plaintiff, an author and a lecturer on automotive safety, by his activities has become a gadfly to the automobile manufacturers. The defendant General Motors, learning of the imminent publication of his book, "Unsafe At Any Speed", authorized other defendants to undertake a thorough unveiling of him. The scrutiny and the surveillance of the plaintiff, carried on by the defendants' operatives, were characterized by such uninhibited gusto...

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