ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION
FOR FINAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT
This is a defamation case. In September 2015, Defendant The New York Times Company (“NYT”) published an article written by Defendant Lipton (“the Article”). It appeared both online and on the Sunday edition’s front page. The Article purported to document relationships cultivated by both biotechnology and organics companies with public university academics. It focused especially on the effects of these relationships in debates about the safety and regulation of genetically modified organism (“GMO”) food products. Defendants discussed and quoted Plaintiff Kevin Folta, Ph.D., professor and former chairman of the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University