HERLIHY v. METROPOLITAN


214 A.D.2d 250 (1995)

633 N.Y.S.2d 106

Cecile Herlihy, Respondent, v. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Defendant, and Ruth Zalinka et al., Appellants

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

October 10, 1995


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne C. Vladeck of counsel (Judith P. Vladeck and Edward Hernstadt on the brief; Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P. C., attorneys), for respondent.

Charles H. Kaplan of counsel (Elizabeth A. Alcorn and Alice B. Stock on the brief (Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan, attorneys), for appellants.

MURPHY, P. J., RUBIN, ROSS and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur.


TOM, J.

This appeal raises the issue of whether statements made by workers to their employer, concerning certain anti-Semitic remarks allegedly made by a supervisor, are privileged communications and therefore, not actionable.

Plaintiff Cecile Herlihy was employed by defendant the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Museum) for a period of more than 20 years and...

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