A Manhattan Supreme Court justice caught in a re-election controversy last year has leveled a $40 million defamation lawsuit at the New York Post, claiming that articles about the flap falsely branded her as a “lazy,” “slow” and “lackluster” judge.
Doris Ling-Cohan, who ultimately landed on the Democratic ballot and was re-elected in November, has filed a 35-page complaint that accuses the Post of mischaracterizing her efficiency and effort as a judge, including in numerous headlines. The allegedly derogatory portrait, which zeroed in on her work ethic, was “intentional, purposeful and intended to convey to the public that [she] was the antithesis of the Asian-American ‘stereotype’ of hardworking and diligent,” Ling-Cohan claims in the lawsuit.
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