Pokorski v Gannett Co., Inc.

Pokorski v Gannett Co., Inc. 2009 NY Slip Op 09892 [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-Respondents,
v
Gannett Co., Inc., et al., Respondents-Appellants, and Maria Sisti et al., Respondents. (Appeal No. 2.)

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

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

Appeal and cross appeal from an order and judgment (one paper) of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Joseph D. Mintz, J.), entered October 15, 2008 in an action for, inter alia, libel. The order and judgment, inter alia, granted the motion of defendants Gannett Co., Inc. and WGRZ TV to dismiss the amended complaint in its entirety.

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