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COPP v. RAMIREZ

62 A.D.3d 23 (2009)

874 N.Y.S.2d 52

DOUG COPP et al., Appellants, v. RAYNER RAMIREZ et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants.

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

Decided February 24, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karasik & Associates, LLC, New York City (Andrew C. Miller and Sheldon Karasik of counsel), for appellants.

Julie Rikelman, New York City, for Rayner Ramirez and others, respondents.

Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, New York City (Mark A. Fowler and James Regan of counsel), for Leslie Linthicum, respondent.

Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C., New York City (David A. Donahue and Betsy Judelson Newman of counsel), for John Grace and another, respondents.

FRIEDMAN, J.P., SWEENY, McGUIRE and FREEDMAN, JJ., concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

RENWICK, J.

Plaintiff Copp commenced this defamation action after his tale of courage and sacrifice at Ground Zero was called into question by eyewitnesses to his activities on the rescue site, but not before his tale convinced the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund to award him $649,000. Copp, an out-of-state plaintiff, sued out-of-state defendants Miller, Grace and Linthicum (the...

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