CHAU v. LEWIS

Docket No. 13-1217.

771 F.3d 118 (2014)

Wing F. CHAU, Harding Advisory LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Michael LEWIS, Steven Eisman, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: November 14, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven F. Molo ( Robert K. Kry , Andrew M. Bernie , MoloLamken LLP, Washington, DC, on the brief), MoloLamken LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Celia Goldwag Barenholtz ( Gabriel Rauterberg , Annika Goldman , on the brief), Cooley LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees Michael Lewis and W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

David A. Schulz ( Michael D. Sullivan , Celeste Phillips , Paul Safier , on the brief), Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Steven Eisman.

Before: KEARSE, WINTER, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.


WESLEY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-Appellants Wing F. Chau and Harding Advisory LLC appeal from a March 29, 2013 judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Daniels, J) dismissing their claims of libel against Defendants-Appellees author Michael Lewis, his source, Steven Eisman, and Lewis's publisher, W.W. Norton, for twenty-six allegedly defamatory statements in Lewis's book The Big Short. The district court granted Defendants...

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