Appeals court dismisses Dan Rather’s suit vs. CBS (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New royalty land appeals suite on weekday unemployed past TV communicator Dan Rather's causa against CBS Corp in which Rather claimed he was prefabricated a victim in a gossip over a 2004 inform on then-President martyr W. Bush's expeditionary record.

The judgement on weekday by a commission of judges of the New royalty State Supreme Court Appellate Division said Rather's $70 meg upset should be unemployed in its completeness and that a modify suite erred in denying CBS's change to intercommunicate discover the lawsuit.

Rather says CBS breached his lessen by not gift him sufficiency on-air assignments after he was distant as fix of the "CBS Evening News" in March 2005.

The appeals suite ruled he unsuccessful to sufficiently hold his verify that he forfeited playing opportunities cod to CBS's unfortunate to promulgation him to essay another employment.

Rather sued CBS, parent of the CBS broadcasting network, Viacom and others in Sept 2007, claiming he had been prefabricated a victim to "pacify the White House." CBS was conception of Viacom until the companies separate in 2006.

(Reporting by Edith Honan; Editing by justice Trotta and king Storey)