Immuno AG., Appellant,
v.
J. Moor-Jankowski, Respondent.
Court of Appeals of the State of New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued November 14, 1989.
Decided December 14, 1989.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Raymond S. Fersko, Anders R. Sterner, Mitchell Lapidus and Anne Marie Perske for appellant.
Robert G. Sugarman and Philip A. Byler for respondent.
Henry R. Kaufman and Gordon T. Platt for World Wildlife Fund and others, amici curiae.
Edward A. Miller and Slade R. Metcalf for Association of American Publishers, Inc., and another, amici curiae.
Floyd Abrams, Taryn V. Shelton, Robert J. Pape, Kathryn J. Rodgers, Thomas DeJulio, Michael G. McDonald, S. Andrew Schaffer, Ada Meloy, James E. McCarthy, III, Shelly Sanders Kehl, Herbert D. Schwartzman, John A. Beach, Thomas S. Evans and Martin H. Bockstein for Adelphi University and others, amici curiae.
Michael S. Zachary, Steven Sinatra, Arthur N. Eisenberg and Kenneth P. Norwick for The New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.
Laura M. Mattera for Sierra Club and others, amici curiae.
Stephan E. Lawton, George R. Clark and Alexander P. Starr for National Association for Biomedical Research, amicus curiae.
Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, ALEXANDER, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur.
Court of Appeals of the State of New York.
KAYE, J.
This appeal concerns application of the "settled rule that expressions of an opinion `false or not, libelous or not, are constitutionally protected and may not be the subject of private damage actions'". (Steinhilber v Alphonse, 68 N.Y.2d 283, 286.) Settled though the rule may be, the line separating protected expressions of opinion from actionable assertions...
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