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MORAN v. HEARST CORP.

40 N.Y.2d 1071 (1976)

Gregg S. D. Moran, Appellant, v. Hearst Corporation et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants. Daniel D. Moran, Appellant, v. Hearst Corporation et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 28, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald S. Engel and Frank L. Miller for appellants.

Richard H. Sugarman and Barry S. Agdern for Hearst Corporation, respondent.

Harold L. Crossman for Mary Sanford, respondent.

Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER and COOKE concur; Judge FUCHSBERG concurs in result in a separate opinion in which Chief Judge BREITEL concurs.

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The publications complained of in this case fall short of defamation as a matter of law (cf. James v Gannett Co., 40 N.Y.2d 415, 419). It would serve no useful purpose in this otherwise trivial case to analyze and then to controvert the innuendos that appellants assert can be read into the gossipy tales...

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