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LEIBOWITZ v. ST. LUKE'S-ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER

281 A.D.2d 350 (2001)

722 N.Y.S.2d 164

LAWRENCE LEIBOWITZ, Appellant, v. ST. LUKE'S-ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER et al., Respondents.

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

Decided March 29, 2001.

Plaintiff's causes of actions sounding in libel per se and slander per se were properly dismissed by the motion court since the statements made by defendants Benn and Eden were, by plaintiff's own admission, substantially true and therefore not actionable (see, Guccione v Hustler Mag., 800 F.2d 298, 301; Fairley v Peekskill Star Corp., 83 A.D.2d 294). Also properly dismissed was plaintiff...

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