# Arrington v. New York Times Co.

> New York Court of Appeals · April 7, 1982 · 55 N.Y.2d 433

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5534391

## Case

- **Full name:** Clarence W. Arrington v. The New York Times Company
- **Court:** New York Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** April 7, 1982
- **Citations:** 55 N.Y.2d 433; 449 N.Y.S.2d 941; 434 N.E.2d 1319; 8 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1351; 1982 N.Y. LEXIS 3203
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Jasengabriellijones
- **Judges:** Fuchsberg, Gabrielli, Jasen, Jones
- **Cited by:** 210 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that the facts of the case did not incline it to adopt the tort
- noting that for purposes of the newsworthiness exception, “ ‘public interest’ [is] clearly a term to be freely defined”
- stating that it did not reach the issue

## Opinion text

Jasen, Gabrielli and Jones, JJ.
(concurring). We concur in result in this case but cannot accept what appears to us to be the overbreadth of Judge Fuchsberg’s opinion, addressing as it does plaintiff’s false light formulation which is not necessary for the resolution of this appeal.
Chief Judge Cooke and Judge Meyer concur with Judge Fuchsberg; Judges Jasen, Gabrielli and Jones concur in result in a concurring memorandum; Judge Wachtler taking no part.
Order modified, with costs to plaintiff against defendants Contact Press Images, Inc., Pledge and Gorgoni, in accordance with the opinion herein and, as so modified, affirmed, with costs to defendant The New York Times Company against plaintiff.

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