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DeMOYA v. WALSH

Nos. 83-848, 83-1580.

441 So.2d 1120 (1983)

Jorge DeMOYA, Appellant, v. William R. WALSH, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied December 21, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miguel A. Pirez-Fabar, Coral Gables, for appellant.

Linda Gurfein Miklowitz and John H. Beck, Tallahassee, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.

FERGUSON, Judge.

Appellee's characterization of his government co-worker as a "raving maniac" and "raving idiot", during the course of a heated professional disagreement in the presence of a small group of other co-workers, may have been personally insulting, but did not constitute actionable slander. Compare Eastern Airlines, Inc. v. Gellert, 438 So.2d 923 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983) (a statement that although ostensibly in the form...

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