New York Supreme Court December 30, 2004 (Cottrell v. Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.)

*565OPINION OF THE COURT

David Mahoney, J.

Defendants move for summary judgment dismissing the complaint in this defamation action in which plaintiff contends that he was defamed by an article that appeared in The Buffalo News on November 13, 1994. Defendant Murray B. Light was the editor of the paper at that time and the author of the article was defendant Dan Herbeck.