A New York animal rights activist's defamation lawsuit against a fellow activist has boomeranged with a judge dismissing her case while allowing her rival to pursue a counterclaim that she had been libeled. In his opinion addressing the competing defamation claims, Justice Francis A. Nicolai described the dispute as arising from a conflict between the two women as to who should get credit for the Town of Greenburgh's passage of a law barring circuses that feature live animals.
April 17, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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An animal rights activist’s defamation lawsuit against a fellow activist has boomeranged with a judge dismissing her case while allowing her rival to pursue a counterclaim that she had been libeled.
Both the plaintiff, Kiley Blackman, a court officer in the Bronx, and the defendant, Barbara Stagno, were involved with two animal rights organizations in Westchester County — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and In Defense of Animals — Blackman as a volunteer and Stagno as an employee.
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