ALBANY – New York’s highest court has ruled against managers of a strip club who claimed they were defamed in a television report, and in favor of a youth hockey group that said it wasn’t responsible for injuries sustained by an adult spectator who was assaulted by another spectator at a game.
The Court of Appeals said the managers of Manhattan’s “Cheetah Club” were not so readily identified in the minds of the public that they were defamed when a CBS affiliate reported in 2011 that the club was “run by the Mafia.” The case, Three Amigos SJL Restaurant v. CBS News, 131, hinged on whether a news report’s allegedly defamatory statements about the club’s ties to organized crime were “of and concerning” the three plaintiffs.
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