Hayes v Rich, 2024 NY Slip Op 02463 [227 AD3d 1478]

May 3, 2024

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

[*1]

Michael Hayes, Respondent,

v

Alec Rich et al., Appellants.

Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic, Ithaca (Cameron Misner of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County (Robert E. Antonacci, II, J.), entered April 11, 2023. The order, inter alia, denied the motion of defendants insofar as it sought an award of attorney’s fees and costs and punitive damages.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed. Present—Whalen, P.J., Curran, Greenwood, Nowak and Keane, JJ..