Handbills that said a Manhattan hotel was “infested with bed bugs” but then offered another definition of the pests expressed protected speech and were not defamatory in a labor dispute between the hotel’s management and a painters’ union, a state judge ruled.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard Braun granted the union’s motion to dismiss The New Yorker Hotel’s complaint for defamation. He said the handbills passed out by members of District No. 9 of the New York International Union of Painters and Allied Trades were not malicious and expressed opinions that are constitutionally protected.
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