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SERMIDI v. BATTISTOTTI

273 A.D.2d 66 (2000)

708 N.Y.S.2d 408

PAOLA SERMIDI, Appellant, v. MARCO BATTISTOTTI et al., Respondents.

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

Decided June 8, 2000.

The statements made in the "Help Me Howard" segment of the media defendants' news show merely indicated that there was a contract dispute between plaintiff and defendant home improvement contractor, did not imply that plaintiff was not creditworthy, and therefore are not capable of a defamatory construction (cf., Cyran v Finlay Straus, Inc., 302 N.Y. 486). Such contract dispute was a matter of public interest, precluding plaintiff's...

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