HOBBS v. IMUS, JR.


266 A.D.2d 36 (1999)

698 N.Y.S.2d 25

MARILYN HOBBS, Appellant, v. JOHN D. IMUS, JR., et al., Respondents.

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

Decided November 9, 1999.


When considered in the context of the ribald radio "shock talk" show in which they were made, it is clear that the complained of statements would not have been taken by reasonable listeners as factual pronouncements but simply as instances in which the defendant radio hosts had expressed their views over the air in the crude and hyperbolic manner that has, over the years, become their verbal stock in trade. Gratuitously tasteless...

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