GIORDANO v. ROMEO

No. 3D11-707.

76 So.3d 1100 (2011)

John GIORDANO, individually, and G & G Addiction Treatment, Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellants, v. Donna L. ROMEO, and Xcentric Ventures, LLC, an Arizona Limited Liability Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

December 28, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosen, Switkes & Entin and Mendy Halberstam , Miami Beach, and Joshua M. Entin, for appellants.

Stack Fernandez Anderson & Harris and Brian J. Stack , Miami, and Sammy Epelbaum ; Jaburg & Wilk and Maria Crimi Speth , Arizona, for appellees.

Lyrissa C. Barnett Lidsky ; Paul Alan Levy as amicus curiae on behalf of Public Citizen and Eric Goldman .

Before WELLS, C.J., and CORTIÑAS and ROTHENBERG, JJ.


CORTIÑAS, J.

John Giordano ("Giordano") operates G & G Addiction Treatment, Inc. ("G & G"), a Florida corporation which offers addiction treatment services. In July 2009, a disgruntled recipient of G & G's services went online and posted false and defamatory claims about G & G, identifying Giordano as a convicted felon and claiming, among other things, that the employees of G & G illegally disburse medications and that the facility itself...

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