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VAN-GO TRANSPORT CO., INC. v. NEW YORK CITY BD. OF EDUC.

Civil Action No. CV-95-2660(DGT).

971 F.Supp. 90 (1997)

VAN-GO TRANSPORT CO., INC., Sterling Coach Corp., Celebrity Transit Corp., Paul Dachs and C. Isaac Dachs, Plaintiffs, v. NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, New York City, Kevin F. Gill, and Richard W. Scarpa, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

July 30, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliot J. Mandel, Kaufman, Naness, Schneider & Rosensweig, P.C., Jericho, NY, Robert J. Jossen, Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman, LLP, New York City, for Plaintiffs.

Paul Crotty, Corporation Counsel of City of New York by Susan M. Shapiro, New York City, for Defendants.

OPINION

TRAGER, District Judge.

Among other issues, this case raises an interesting and somewhat novel defamation question. In an age of increasingly efficient information collection, the case highlights the conflict between the justifiable goal of more efficient government and a person's interest in his reputation, that "plant of tender growth, [whose] bloom, once lost, is not easily restored." Karlin v. Culkin, 248 N.Y. 465, 478, 162 N.E...

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