
    Joseph Amodei, Appellant, v New York State Chiropractic Association et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants.
    Argued February 6, 1991;
    decided March 26, 1991
    APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Howard S. Davis and Barry M. Hoffman for appellant.
    
      Barry G. Saretsky and Scott S. Greenspun for respondents.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

Plaintiffs defamation action was properly dismissed. The words of which he complains could not reasonably have been understood as implying a false assertion of fact.

Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone and Hancock, Jr., concur; Judge Bellacosa taking no part.

Order affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.  