TORTS-DEFAMATION-RIGHT OF CORPORATION TO SUE FOR LIBELOUS WORDS CONCERNING ITS EMPLOYEES

Authors

Chester F. Relyea, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

The plaintiff corporation owns and operates a fashionable clothing store. The defendants are authors of a book which stated that some of the corporation's models and sales girls were prostitutes and many of its male designers and salesmen were homosexuals. A number from both groups were said to have been "imported." On defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action in libel, the court denied the motion. Held: even without an allegation of special damages, it could not be said as a matter of law that a corporation could not be directly damaged in a business way by a publication that it employs seriously undesirable personnel. Neiman-Marcus Co. v. Lait, (D.C. N.Y. 1952) 107 F. Supp. 96.

Recommended Citation

Chester F. Relyea, TORTS-DEFAMATION-RIGHT OF CORPORATION TO SUE FOR LIBELOUS WORDS CONCERNING ITS EMPLOYEES, 51 Mich. L. Rev. 611 (1953).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol51/iss4/20