United States Second Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants on plaintiff-s libel claim is affirmed over claim that the district court erred in holding that under New York law, statements regarding the reasons for terminating a registered employee, made on a National Association of Securities Dealers Form U-5, are subject to an absolute privilege.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/14/2007
• Published 06/14/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, WALKER and WALLACE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Maurice W. Heller (Jacob W. Heller and Allen M. Eisenberg, on the brief), Heller Horowitz & Feit, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven E. Obus (Steven Yarusinsky, on the brief), Proskauer Rose LLP, Newark, NJ, for Defendants-Appellees.