MILFORD PLAZA ASSOCS. v. HEARST CORP.


200 A.D.2d 363 (1994)

606 N.Y.S.2d 184

Milford Plaza Associates, Appellant, v. Hearst Corporation et al., Respondents

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

January 4, 1994


The IAS Court properly concluded that the statements at issue were not reasonably susceptible of a factual interpretation and, therefore, were not actionable. The dispositive inquiry in this State is whether a reasonable reader of a publication could have concluded that it was conveying facts about the plaintiff (Gross v New York Times Co., 82 N.Y.2d 146). No reasonable reader of defendant Grizzard's column could have concluded that...

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