LEFFLER v. KOTICK

155820/18. Appeal No. 12088. Case No. 2020-01773.

187 A.D.3d 543 (2020)

130 N.Y.S.3d 663

2020 NY Slip Op 05815

Marc Leffler, Respondent, v. Joel M. Kotick, Appellant.

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

Decided October 15, 2020.


The motion court properly determined that plaintiff established, prima facie, that defendant made substantially false statements, to a nonprivileged party, that plaintiff committed and suborned perjury at a trial, where the parties were opposing counsel, which constituted defamation per se (see Dillon v City of New York, 261 A.D.2d 34, 38 [1st Dept 1999]; Liberman v Gelstein...

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