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GANNETT CO., INC. v. ANDERSON

No. 1D05-2179.

947 So.2d 1 (2006)

GANNETT CO., INC., Multimedia Holdings Corp., d/b/a The Pensacola News Journal and Multimedia, Inc., Appellants, v. Joe ANDERSON, Jr., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

October 20, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis K. Larry and Donald H. Partington of Clark, Partington, Hart, Larry, Bond & Stackhouse, Pensacola, for Gannett Co., Inc.; Talbot D'Alemberte, Tallahassee, for Gannett Co., Inc.; Robert C. Bernius and Kevin M. Colmey of Nixon Peabody LLP, Washington, D.C., for Multimedia Holdings Corp., dba The Pensacola News Journal; and Robert G. Kerrigan of Kerrigan, Estess, Rankin & McLeod, LLP, Pensacola, for Multimedia, Inc.

Jon Mills, Gainesville; and Jon Kaney of Cobb & Cole, Daytona Beach, First Amendment Foundation; Lee Levine, Nathan Siegal, and Nicole A. Auerbach of Levine, Sullivan, Koch & Schulz, LLP, Washington, D.C. and David M. Snyder of David M. Snyder, P.A., Tampa for The Florida Press Association; ABC, Inc.; CBS Broadcasting, Inc.; The E.W. Scripps Company; The Hearst Corporation; Media General, Inc.; The New York Times Company; and Tribune Company, Inc., Amicus Curiae, for Appellants.

Beverly A. Pohl of Broad and Cassel, Fort Lauderdale; Bruce S. Rogow of Bruce S. Rogow, P.A., Fort Lauderdale; and Willie E. Gary, Phyllis Gillespie and C.K. Hoffler of Gary, Williams Parenti, Stuart, for Appellee.

PADOVANO, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding the plaintiff damages for an alleged invasion of his privacy. We conclude that the action is barred by the statute of limitations and therefore we reverse. The plaintiff claimed that the defendants invaded his privacy by publishing facts that portrayed him in a false light. Because this claim was not distinguishable in any material respect from a libel claim, it was subject to the two-year statute of limitations...

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