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Chau v. Lewis
Citation:
771 F.3d 118 (2d. Cir. 2014)Facts
The defendant, author Michael Lewis, wrote a book entitled The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine about the 2008-2009 US housing market collapse. The book looks at a group of people who shorted, or bet against, the subprime mortgage bond market at a time when most real estate investors thought real estate prices would continue to rise. One chapter of the book, entitled “Spider-Man at the Venetian,” contains statements that are defamatory to the plaintiff and his business. This chapter contains 24 pages, a third of which focuses on a dinner conversation that took place in January 2007 involving the plaintiff. This chapter paints the plaintiff in a negative light, and the plaintiff claims 26 allegedly defamatory statements were written in the chapter.
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