On September 26, 2006, a New York Supreme Court Justice dismissed a defamation lawsuit that a large corporation had filed against Workers World Party and its newspaper, Workers World. Renco Group v Workers World Party, Manhatten, 102875-06. The party’s newspaper had written that the owners of WCI Steel were underfunding the workers’ pension funds. The decision said that the newspaper had “employed colorful rhetoric that is the hallmark of hyperbole”, and that its article was opinion, and therefore immune from any lawsuit alleging defamation or libel.