"As Supreme Court concluded, defendants' allegedly libelous statements in affidavits and a letter are absolutely privileged inasmuch as they were made in the course of a judicial proceeding and pertinent to that litigation (see Martirano v Frost, 25 NY2d 505, 507-508 [1969]; Cavallaro v Pozzi, 28 AD3d 1075, 1077 [2006]; Black v Green Harbour Homeowners' Assn., Inc., 19 AD3d 962, 963 [2005]; Grasso v Mathew, 164 AD2d… [read post]