Navis v. Times-Picayune Publishing Corp.

CIACCIO, Judge.

This is a suit for defamation and invasion of privacy brought by plaintiff Craig Navis against The Times Picayune Publishing Corporation arising out of a newspaper article published on August 23, 1989. The trial court denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment, and we granted certiorari to consider whether there remain any material issues of fact in dispute which preclude summary judgment.

The standard for review of a motion for summary judgment in a defamation case has recently been set forth by our Supreme Court in Sassone v. Elder, 626 So.2d 345 (1993):

[1]n order to…