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GOLUB v. ENQUIRER/STAR GROUP, INC.

89 N.Y.2d 1074 (1997)

681 N.E.2d 1282

659 N.Y.S.2d 836

Aaron R. Golub, as Executor of Chen Sam, Deceased, et al., Appellants, v. Enquirer/Star Group, Inc., Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 13, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nehemiah S. Glanc, New York City, and Aaron Richard Golub, pro se, for appellants.

Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld, L. L. P., New York City (Slade R. Metcalf, Mark H. Jackson and Jean Voutsinas of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge KAY and Judges TITONE, BELLACOSA, SMITH, LEVINE, CIPARICK and WESLEY concur.

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division dismissing the complaint should be affirmed, with costs.

A statement that plaintiffs' decedent, a public relations consultant, had cancer was published in the August 27, 1991, issue of defendant's publication "Star." Plaintiffs contend that the published statement about decedent having been diagnosed with cancer is defamatory in two respects. First, according to plaintiffs...

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