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LA NACION NEWSPAPER, INC. v. RIVERO

No. 85-407.

478 So.2d 451 (1985)

LA NACION NEWSPAPER, INC., Appellant, v. Santos RIVERO, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

November 12, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fernandez, Caubi, Fernandez & Aguilar and Humberto Cancio, Jr., Miami, for appellant.

Magill & Lewis and R. Fred Lewis, Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and DANIEL S. PEARSON and FERGUSON, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Defendant, La Nacion Newspaper, Inc., appeals from a final judgment awarding plaintiff compensatory and punitive damages for a series of allegedly defamatory articles which appeared in the newspaper.

Plaintiff initiated a libel action in circuit court seeking damages flowing from the articles published by defendant. A default was entered against defendant for failure to respond timely to the action. The...

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