Pokorski v Gannett Co., Inc.

Pokorski v Gannett Co., Inc. 2009 NY Slip Op 09891 [68 AD3d 1778] December 30, 2009 Appellate Division, Fourth Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Kenneth Pokorski et al., Appellants, v Gannett Co., Inc., et al., Respondents. (Appeal No. 1.)

—[*1] Michael W. Rickard, II, Williamsville, for plaintiffs-appellants Kenneth Pokorski, Christine E. Dodds and Catherine E. Dodds, by her parent/guardian Christine E. Dodds, and David Dale, plaintiff-appellant pro se.

Nixon Peabody LLP, Washington, D.C. (Leslie Paul Machado of counsel), for defendants-respondents.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Joseph D. Mintz, J.), entered April 24, 2008 in an action for, inter alia, libel. The order, insofar as appealed from, granted in part the motion of defendants Gannett Co., Inc. and WGRZ TV to dismiss the complaint.

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