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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-22-029915"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AERG"
cik: "0000879911"
company_name: "APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC."
filed_at: "2022-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T06:33:50.505084+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Applied Energetics obtains dismissal with prejudice of defamation claim by Gusrae Kaplan & Nusbaum

## Summary
- On May 23, 2022, New York Supreme Court granted all defendants' motions to dismiss the defamation per se claim with prejudice.
- The court reached the merits and declined to award sanctions; arguments on time-bar and jurisdiction were not addressed.
- The company is continuing its legal malpractice claim against Gusrae Kaplan & Nusbaum in the Southern District of New York.
- A prior related libel claim in federal court was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice in August 2021.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-22-029915
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AERG
- cik: 0000879911
- company_name: APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/879911/000121390022029915/0001213900-22-029915-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/879911/000121390022029915/ea160677-8k_applied.htm

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