WRIGHT v. FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO.

Nos. 89-1610, 89-2031.

559 So.2d 1228 (1990)

George WRIGHT, Appellant, v. FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY and Homestead Newspapers, Inc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

April 3, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Ungar and Kopplow & Flynn, for appellant.

Steel Hector & Davis and Donald M. Middlebrooks, Miami, for appellee Florida Power & Light Co.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and John A. Bussian, Miami, for appellee Homestead Newspapers, Inc.

Before HUBBART, COPE and LEVY, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Appellee Homestead Newspapers, Inc., who was a defendant below, contends that the summary judgment entered in its favor by the trial court was proper because the newspaper articles in question were protected by the "opinion" privilege as well as by Florida's common-law "fair comment" privilege. We disagree.

We hold, as a matter of law, that the comments of the newspaper articles in question constitute factual statements and not expressions of the...

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