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COMMON-INTEREST PRIVILEGE OVERCOME BY ALLEGATIONS OF MALICE, NO NEED FOR FACTUAL EVIDENCE OF MALICE AT THE MOTION TO DISMISS STAGE (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined that, although the common interest privilege applied to the allegedly defamatory statements, the allegations of malice were sufficient to overcome the privilege in the context of a motion to dismiss. The court noted that no evidence of malice need be presented at the motion-to-dismiss stage:

“To state a cause of action to recover damages for defamation, a plaintiff must allege that the defendant published a false statement, without privilege or authorization, to a third party, constituting fault as judged by, at a minimum, a negligence standard, and it must either cause special harm or constitute defamation per se”…. . “A communication made by one person to another upon a subject in which both have an interest is protected by a qualified privilege”… . However, this “common-interest privilege” may be overcome by a showing of malice … . “To establish the malice’ necessary to defeat the privilege, the plaintiff may show either common-law malice, i.e., spite or ill will,’ or may show actual malice,’ i.e., knowledge of falsehood of the statement or reckless disregard for the truth” … .

Here, * * * the common-interest privilege applies to the allegedly defamatory communications… . However, accepting the facts as alleged in the amended complaint as true, and according the plaintiff the benefit of every possible favorable inference …, the amended complaint sufficiently alleges malice to overcome the privilege… . “[A] plaintiff has no obligation to show evidentiary facts to support [his or her] allegations of malice on a motion to dismiss pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) … . Ferrara v Bank, 2017 NY Slip Op 06161, Second Dept 8-16-17

 

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