A Manhattan judge has rejected the claim that real estate attorney Adam Leitman Bailey waged a “malicious media campaign” aimed at “shaking down” a developer who is suing Bailey’s client, dismissing a $25 million suit that said the lawyer had committed abuse-of-process and tortious-interference torts.

The dismissal of the suit filed against Bailey and his 29-lawyer Manhattan firm, Adam Leitman Bailey P.C., appears to give some vindication to Bailey. He said publicly in May that Y. David Scharf, the Morrison Cohen litigator and chair who was helping to litigate the tort suit, “cannot win this case under any circumstances, assuming all the facts in it are true, which they are not.”

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