PELAYO v. CELLE


270 A.D.2d 469 (2000)

705 N.Y.S.2d 282

JOY PELAYO, Appellant, v. LINO CELLE, Defendant, and ROGELIO BURGOS et al., Respondents.

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

Decided March 27, 2000.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

This action was commenced by the plaintiff against a newspaper, its publisher, and a reporter, based on an article which referred to the plaintiff's criminal conviction in Nassau County a number of years ago. The article was substantially accurate, and was a "fair and true" report of a judicial proceeding within the meaning of Civil Rights Law § 74 (see, Holy Spirit Assn. for Unification of World Christianity...

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