NY Court Rejects Parent’s Suit Against Manhattan Private School

A New York appellate court on Tuesday rejected a Manhattan father’s claims that his daughter’s school defamed him in the New York Post by saying he was lying about the school’s “woke” curriculum.

The court also affirmed a lower court decision granting the school’s request for attorneys’ fees under New York’s newly amended anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation law. The anti-SLAPP law requires courts to award costs and attorneys’ fees to defendants when the plaintiff loses in a defamation case.

Harvey Goldman, who pulled his daughter out of Abraham Joshua Heschel School, failed to state a defamation claim because the ...