BRAUN v. SOLDIER OF FORTUNE MAGAZINE, INC.

No. 91-7130.

968 F.2d 1110 (1992)

Michael F. BRAUN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SOLDIER OF FORTUNE MAGAZINE, INC. and Omega Group, Ltd., Defendants-Appellants. Michael F. BRAUN and Ian Braun, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SOLDIER OF FORTUNE MAGAZINE, INC. and Omega Group, Ltd., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 13, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Chadwick Morriss, James W. Garrett, Jr., Dennis R. Bailey, Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, Pa., Montgomery, Ala., E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., Ronald J. Wiltsie, II, A. Lee Bentley, III, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants.

L. Gilbert Kendrick, Stephen R. Glassroth, Kendrick & Glassroth, John C. Cason, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before ANDERSON and DUBINA, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.


ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Inc., and its parent, Omega Group, Ltd., (hereinafter collectively referred to as "SOF") appeal a $4,375,000 jury verdict against them in a consolidated tort action brought by Michael and Ian Braun, the sons of a murder victim. The jury found that SOF acted with negligence and malice in publishing a personal service advertisement through which plaintiffs' father's business partner hired an assassin to kill him...

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