BORINO v. PUBLIX SUPERMARKETS, INC.

No. 4D01-3267.

825 So.2d 424 (2002)

Curtis BORINO, Appellant, v. PUBLIX SUPERMARKETS, INC., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 19, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott A. Mager of Mager & Associates, Fort Lauderdale, and Stewart L. Karlin of the Law Offices of Stewart L. Karlin, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Robert D. Hall, Jr., Edmund J. McKenna and Dawn Siler Nixon of Ford & Harrison, LLP, Tampa, for appellee.


KLEIN, J.

Appellant plaintiff was awarded $200.000 by the jury in this defamation case, but the trial court granted defendant's post-trial motions for directed verdict and new trial. We reverse for reinstatement of the verdict.

Plaintiff was employed at a Publix store for twenty years as a clerk, stocking merchandise and unloading trucks, which involved strenuous physical labor. In recent years he had also been working a second job for Delta Airlines, cleaning...

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