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SPREWELL v. NYP HOLDINGS INC.

43 A.D.3d 16 (2007)

841 N.Y.S.2d 7

LATRELL F. SPREWELL, Respondent, v. NYP HOLDINGS, INC., et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.

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

June 19, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., New York City (Slade R. Metcalf and Jason P. Conti of counsel), for appellants.

No appearance or brief on behalf of respondent.

TOM, J.P., SULLIVAN, WILLIAMS and MALONE, JJ., concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

BUCKLEY, J.

This action for defamation arises out of a series of articles written by defendant Marc Berman and published in the New York Post, owned by defendant NYP Holdings, Inc. (the Post). Insofar as pertinent to this appeal, plaintiff Latrell Sprewell, a basketball player formerly with the New York Knickerbockers (the Knicks), asserts that he was libeled by statements in Berman's articles regarding the cause of a hand injury, which...

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