Defendants' motion for summary judgment raises a question concerning the constitutionally mandated standard of liability for libel not previously decided in this State.
The defamatory statement of which plaintiff complains was published in the Daily News in July, 1977 as the first paragraph of the fourth article in a series on the deinstitutionalization of mental patients. That paragraph read: "When he was 41, George...
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