Alan B. LEVAN, an individual plaintiff, BankAtlantic Financial Corporation, a Florida corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants,
v.
CAPITAL CITIES/ABC, INC., a New York corporation, William H. Willson, an individual, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 29, 1999.
September 29, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Raymond V. Miller, Kaufman Miller Dickstein & Grunspan, P.A., Miami, FL, Floyd Abrams, Susan Buckley, Anne Carrell, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York City, for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.
Alan Harold Fein, Joy Spillis Lundeen, Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.
Before TJOFLAT, BLACK and CARNES, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
Appellees BFC Financial Corporation ("BFC"),1 and its President, Chief Executive Officer, and controlling shareholder, Alan Levan, brought this action for defamation against Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. ("ABC") and one of its producers, Bill Willson. Their cause of action arose from a segment aired on ABC's television program "20/20" that portrayed BFC and Levan as unfairly taking advantage of investors in real estate...
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