MOREIRA-BROWN v. CITY OF NEW YORK

2251N, 26490/99

71 A.D.3d 530 (2010)

896 N.Y.S.2d 353

HERBERT MOREIRA-BROWN, Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents.

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

Decided March 18, 2010.


In this action for defamation and emotional distress, the verified complaint alleges that on or about September 12, 1998, defendant Police Detective Raymond Rivera, acting as agent for his codefendants, made written and verbal defamatory statements that plaintiff "had committed rape and sexual assault and was being sought by the police for arrest and prosecution [for] rape and sexual assault." These words were not demarcated as a quotation in the complaint. Dismissing the...

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