Daniels v. Patterson

This appeal and cross-appeal of orders in an action for libel were filed by the representatives of rival unions in a 1994 Public Employee Relations Commission (PERC) proceeding involving 3,000 City of Jacksonville employees. Attorney Ben Patterson represented the Florida Public Employees Council 79, AFSCME, which had previously been certified as the bargaining agent for the City employees. Jack Daniels was one of the non-lawyer representatives of the Association of City Employees (ACE), a competing union. During the PERC proceeding, Patterson sent a letter to the mayor which contained an…