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SCANDINAVIAN WORLD CRUISES v. ERGLE

No. 87-0439.

525 So.2d 1012 (1988)

SCANDINAVIAN WORLD CRUISES (BAHAMAS) LTD., Appellant, v. Walter ERGLE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 1, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur R. Wiedinger, Jr., of Nabors, Giblin, Steffens & Nickerson, P.A., Tallahassee, and J. Michael Cavanaugh of Graham & James, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Michael Jeffries of Neill Griffin Jeffries & Lloyd Chartered, Fort Pierce, for appellee.

DOWNEY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final judgment awarding Walter Ergle, the harbormaster and port pilot of the Port of Fort Pierce, $75,000 in compensatory damages and $25,000 in punitive damages in a defamation action based on statements made by representatives of Scandinavian World Cruises (SWC), which were printed in a newspaper article. The headline on the article read "Port fees too high; cruise ship leaves Fort Pierce." Basically, the allegedly defamatory...

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