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SAM v. ENQUIRER/STAR GROUP, INC.

223 A.D.2d 360 (1996)

636 N.Y.S.2d 49

Chen Sam et al., Respondents, v. Enquirer/Star Group, Inc., Appellant

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

January 4, 1996

The statement in defendant's August 27, 1991 article that plaintiff, a well known publicist, had been diagnosed with cancer does not constitute libel per se. Cancer is not a loathsome disease (Chuy v Philadelphia Eagles Football Club, 595 F.2d 1265, 1280-1282) and it cannot be said that society as a whole views it, as urged by plaintiff, as a sexually transmitted disease. Under plaintiffs...

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