An attorney detained after what he said were untrue allegations that he had filched $6.95 worth of chicken wings from a Manhattan bar has lost his bid to sue the bar and two of its employees.
“The charge of stealing a $6.95 order of chicken wings, hardly constitutes that of a serious crime,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Louis York (See Profile) wrote in Pawar v. The Stumble Inn, 100686-2012, holding that Vikrant Pawar had not made a sufficient case that the charge amounted to slander.
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