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TRIBUNE CO. v. LEVIN

No. 81-1361.

426 So.2d 45 (1982)

The TRIBUNE COMPANY, a Corporation, Paul Hogan, Managing Editor, Joseph Registrato, City Desk Editor, and William Sloat, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Leonard D. LEVIN, General Energy Devices, Inc., Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearings Denied January 24, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Paine Kelly, Jr., W.S. Rodgers, Jr., and Ted R. Maney, III, of MacFarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Tampa, for appellants/cross-appellees.

O. Stephen Thacker, Clearwater, John R. Ferguson of Peabody, Lambert & Meyers, Washington, D.C., C. Michael Deese of Webster, Chamberlain & Bean, Washington, D.C., for appellees/cross-appellants.

PER CURIAM.

A jury awarded plaintiffs/appellees compensatory and punitive damages for appellants' publication of defamatory newspaper articles concerning appellees' business and personal activities. After a poll of the jury disclosed that not all the jurors were in agreement on the award of punitive damages, the trial court struck that portion of the verdict. The trial court entered judgment accordingly.

Appellants seek reversal of the judgment for compensatory...

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