A website on which a man compared a doctor he is suing for malpractice to Nazi Joseph Mengele was found slanderous by a judge who issued a preliminary injunction against continued operation of the site.
Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Arthur Diamond said the comparison that Arye Sachs made on the site “Matano–Kills?” between Mengele and Dr. Richard Matano of St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn is not a “protected qualified privilege” under defamation/libel law, but rather a “bald, reckless” assertion “in disregard of the truth.”
