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CHUTKO v. BEN-AMI

157639/15. 4070. 4069.

150 A.D.3d 582 (2017)

2017 NY Slip Op 04077

55 N.Y.S.3d 203

MICHAEL CHUTKO et al., Appellants, v. ODED BEN-AMI et al., Respondents. MICHAEL CHUTKO et al., Appellants, v. MARTIN MELZER, Respondent, et al., Defendant.

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

Decided May 23, 2017.

The claims against the attorneys (defamation and tortious interference with contract) were correctly dismissed, because the attorneys' letter was "pertinent to a good faith anticipated litigation" as established by irrefutable documentary evidence (see Front, Inc. v Khalil, 24 N.Y.3d 713, 715 [2015]). Plaintiffs failed to show that the litigation, commenced in Surrogate's Court by the...

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