Score One for Freedom of the (Real Estate) Press

June 2, 2014 — The New York Observer is celebrating: A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against that newspaper and the website TheRealDeal.com, filed against them by Robert Gans, CEO of Scores Holding Co, Inc. Both publications picked up a story from the New York Post in December 2012 about Gans being sued by the board of the Atelier condominium at 635 W. 42nd Street for allegedly allowing an escort service to be run by one of his employees out of an apartment there. Gans sued the publications over a technicality in their language when describing the suit, but according to the Observer, the judge "basically said that even if all of the plaintiff’s claims were true, they didn’t amount to ‘any cognizable legal theory.’”