Lawrence E. White v Berkshire-Hathaway, Inc.

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White v Berkshire-Hathaway, Inc. 2004 NY Slip Op 02014 [5 AD3d 1083] March 19, 2004 Appellate Division, Fourth Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Lawrence E. White, Appellant, v Berkshire-Hathaway, Inc., Respondent, et al., Defendant.

—Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (John P. Lane, J.), entered March 31, 2003. The order granted the motion of defendant Berkshire-Hathaway, Inc. for partial summary judgment determining that plaintiff is a "limited purpose public figure" in a defamation action.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs for reasons stated in decision at Supreme Court. Present—Pine, J.P., Wisner, Scudder, Kehoe and Lawton, JJ.