758 N.Y.S.2d 877 | N.Y. App. Div. | 2003
—Appeal from an order of Supreme Court, Onondaga County (Centra, J.), entered January 25, 2002, which granted the motion of defendants-respondents to dismiss the first 11 causes of action of the complaint.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Supreme Court properly granted the motion of Verizon Communications, Inc. (Verizon), its corporate affiliates and its named employees (defendants) seeking dismissal of the first 11 causes of action in the complaint. The 1st through 7th, 9th and 11th causes of action sound in slander per se and are based on plaintiffs allegations that Verizon employees