MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO. v. ANE

No. 79-1463.

423 So.2d 376 (1982)

The MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Appellant, v. Aurelio ANE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied January 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steel, Hector & Davis and Talbot D'Alemberte and Donald M. Middlebrooks, James D. Spaniolo, Miami, for appellant.

Adams & Ward and Robert Ward and James W. Kaufman, Miami, for appellee.

Before HUBBART, C.J., and HENDRY and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


HUBBART, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from a final judgment awarding compensatory damages against a newspaper in a libel action brought in the Circuit Court for the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Monroe County, Florida.

The central question presented for review is whether a plaintiff [who is neither a public official nor public figure] in a libel action is required under Florida law to establish as an element of his cause of action...

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