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PAUL v. HALEY

183 A.D.2d 44 (1992)

Emma L. Paul, Respondent, v. George W. Haley, as Executor of Alex Haley, Deceased, et al., Appellants

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

October 19, 1992

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke, New York (Robert M. Callagy, Daniel G. Gurfein and Gary S. Tolchinsky of counsel), for Estate of Alex Haley and others, appellants.

Coudert Brothers, New York (Michael J. Calvey, Paula R. Silberthau and Marc D. Ostrow of counsel), for American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., appellant.

James P. Malone, Rockville Centre, for respondent.

HARWOOD, J. P., LAWRENCE and BALLETTA, JJ., concur.

EIBER, J.

In 1966, the late Alex Haley began a search to trace his family's history in Africa and America which culminated, 10 years later, in the publication of the Pulitzer Prize winning book Roots: The Saga of an American Family (hereinafter Roots). Roots tells the story of Haley's African ancestor Kunte Kinte, who was abducted from his Village in West Gambia at the age of 16 and sold...

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