WEINER v. DOUBLEDAY & CO.


142 A.D.2d 100 (1988)

Herman Weiner, Respondent, v. Doubleday & Company, Inc., et al., Appellants

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

December 8, 1988


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lyman Stansky (Murray Kagel with him on the brief), for respondent.

Victor A. Kovner of counsel (Laura R. Handman and John Siegel with him on the brief; Lankenau Kovner & Bickford and Harriette K. Dorsen and Katherine Trager, attorneys), for appellants.

MURPHY, P. J., ASCH, ROSENBERGER and SMITH, JJ., concur.


ROSS, J.

We are presented, in this libel action, with the issue of whether unflattering references allegedly referring to the plaintiff, who is a practicing psychologist, which appear in a nonfiction book are defamatory or are constitutionally protected expressions of opinion.

Ms. Shana Alexander, in 1985, wrote a book entitled: Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album (book), which was published...

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