FRIENDS OF ANIMALS, INC. v. ASSOCIATED FUR MFRS., INC.


46 N.Y.2d 1065 (1979)

Friends of Animals, Inc., Respondent, v. Associated Fur Manufacturers, Inc., et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Cammer, Harold I. Cammer and Charles Goldberg for appellants.

Sidney Schreiberg for respondent.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER and FUCHSBERG concur in Per Curiam opinion.


Per Curiam.

Because plaintiff failed to show facts sufficient to require a trial of the issue of actual malice, defendants' motion for summary judgment was properly granted.

The complaint in this libel action alleges a single cause of action against all defendants for conspiracy to defame plaintiff by publication of a false statement that "Friends of Animals has hired trappers to skin baby seals alive to be...

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