GALASSO v. SALTZMAN


42 A.D.3d 310 (2007)

839 N.Y.S.2d 731

PHILIP GALASSO, Respondent, v. ARNOLD A. SALTZMAN, Appellant, et al., Defendants.

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

Decided July 5, 2007.


The alleged defamatory statements constituted permissible opinion. They were made in the context of a heated dispute among residential property owners in Sands Point, a beach community in Nassau County. After plaintiff allegedly committed criminal trespass in May and early July 2005 by removing trees and a fence on defendant Arnold Saltzman's property, and threatened further, similar action, Saltzman obtained a cease-and-desist...

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