Media & Communications Law
Judge Files Defamation Suit Against New York Daily News
Posted May 5, 2008, 06:51 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A Brooklyn judge has filed a $10 million defamation suit against the New York Daily News for publishing two columns that claimed he improperly presided over a case involving a lawyer who had represented him before the judicial conduct commission.
Judge Larry Martin claims in the lawsuit that lawyer Ravi Batra was the source of the columns, which he labels "outrageous, grossly irresponsible [and] malicious,” the New York Law Journal reports.
The columns claimed Martin presided over a mortgage foreclosure case in which his personal lawyer, Jerome Karp, secretly represented one of the litigants.
The articles cited allegations in a lawsuit filed by Batra and said the "complicated world of judicial corruption in Brooklyn—a snakepit… Continue reading...
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