CLEMENTE v. IMPASTATO


290 A.D.2d 864 (2002)

736 N.Y.S.2d 281

ANDREW CLEMENTE, Respondent, v. ALICE IMPASTATO, Appellant.

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

Decided January 24, 2002.


Lahtinen, J.

In 1994, plaintiff commenced a defamation action against defendant, alleging that certain of her comments about him contained in a letter sent to the Regional Director of the Department of Environmental Conservation (hereinafter DEC) and seven other individuals were libelous per se. Defendant counterclaimed for, inter alia, costs and counsel fees under Civil Rights Law § 70-a, alleging that plaintiff's defamation action was a strategic lawsuit against...

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