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Remedies Keyed to Kovacic-Fleischer, 8th
Bingham v. Struve
Citation:
184 A.D.2d 85, 591 N.Y.S.2d 156 (1992)Facts
A. Walker Bingham III and Catherine T.A. Struve had a romantic relationship from 1953 to 1955 when he was a law student at Harvard and she was a librarian. After 30 years of separate lives, during which both married others, they had a second affair from 1983 to 1989. In 1989, defendant claimed she recovered a repressed memory of plaintiff raping her in 1953. Beginning in December 1989, she communicated this accusation to plaintiffs’ family members, business associates, neighbors, and former colleagues through letters and telephone calls. In August 1991, she began daily picketing outside plaintiffs’ Manhattan apartment building wearing a sandwich board that read: “attention RESIDENTS OF 19 EAST 72nd ST. A. WALKER BINGHAM 3 RAPED ME AND IS NOW SUING ME FOR libel.” Defendant claimed publicizing these charges was necessary for her emotional healing and required an admission of guilt from plaintiff husband.
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