GOTTWALD v. SEBERT

Nos. 32, 33.

40 N.Y.3d 240 (2023)

220 N.E.3d 621

197 N.Y.S.3d 694

2023 NY Slip Op 03183

LUKASZ GOTTWALD, Professionally Known as DR. LUKE, et al., Plaintiffs/Counterclaim Defendants-Respondents, v. KESHA ROSE SEBERT, Professionally Known as KESHA, Defendant/ Counterclaim Plaintiff-Appellant, et al., Defendants. LUKASZ GOTTWALD, Professionally Known as DR. LUKE, et al., Respondents, v. KESHA ROSE SEBERT, Professionally Known as KESHA, Appellant, et al., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided June 13, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York City (Anton Metlitsky and Leah Godesky of counsel) and Los Angeles, California (Daniel M. Petrocelli, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for appellant/counterclaim plaintiff-appellant in the first above-entitled action.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, New York City (Christine Lepera, Jeffrey M. Movit and Bradley J. Mullins of counsel), for respondents/counterclaim defendants-respondents in the first above-entitled action.

Steptoe & Johnson LLP, New York City (Joseph M. Sanderson, Nicholas Peterson and María Esperanza Ortiz of counsel) and San Francisco, California (Stephanie Sheridan, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), and Legal Momentum, New York City (Jennifer M. Becker and Dorea Kyra Batté of counsel), for Legal Momentum and others, amici curiae in the first above-entitled action.

Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, New York City (Alan S. Lewis of counsel), for Samuel D. Isaly, amicus curiae in the first above-entitled action.

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, New York City (Katherine M. Bolger and Amanda B. Levine of counsel), for Advance Publications, Inc. and others, amici curiae in the first above-entitled action.

Baker & Hostetler LLP, New York City (Katherine L. McKnight of counsel), and Bailen Law, New York City (Mark I. Bailen and A. Mackenna White of counsel), for María Kim Grand, amicus curiae in the first above-entitled action.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York City (Anton Metlitsky, Leah Godesky and Yaira Dubin of counsel) and Los Angeles, California (Daniel M. Petrocelli, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for appellant in the second above-entitled action.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, New York City (Christine Lepera, Jeffrey M. Movit and Bradley J. Mullins of counsel), for respondents in the second above-entitled action.

Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, New York City (Alan S. Lewis and John J. Walsh of counsel), for Samuel D. Isaly, amicus curiae in the second above-entitled action.

Latham & Watkins LLP, New York City (Samir Deger-Sen, Michael Bosworth, Mateo de la Torre and Lydia Franzek of counsel), and National Women's Law Center, Washington, D.C. (Emily Martin, Sunu P. Chandy and Elizabeth Tang of counsel), for National Women's Law Center and others, amici curiae in the second above-entitled action.

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, New York City (Eileen Monaghan DeLucia, Brian T. Goldman and Prishika Raj of counsel), and First Amendment Clinic, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California (Eugene Volokh, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and others, amici curiae in the second above-entitled action.


APPEAL, in the first above-entitled action, by permission of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, from an order of that Court, entered March 10, 2022. The Appellate Division (1) reversed, on the law, an order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Jennifer G. Schecter, J.), which had granted defendant's motion for a ruling that Civil Rights Law § 76-a applied to plaintiffs' defamation claims against her and for leave to assert...

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