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New York’s Highest Court Limits Ability of Financial Employees to Recover for Defamatory Statements

On March 29, 2007, New York State’s highest court—the New York Court of Appeals—resolved a split among lower courts concerning whether securities industry employees could sue for monetary damages stemming from an employer firm’s filing of maliciously false and defamatory comments on a form U-5 termination statement. Employers that are…