Braun v. Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Inc., and its parent, Omega Group, Ltd., (hereinafter collectively referred to as “SOF”) appeal a $4,375,000 jury verdict against them in a consolidated tort action brought by Michael and Ian Braun, the sons of a murder victim. The jury found that SOF acted with negligence and malice in publishing a personal service advertisement through which plaintiffs’ father’s business partner hired an assassin to kill him. We affirm the judgment entered on the jury’s verdict.
I. FACTS
In January 1985, Michael Savage submitted a personal service…
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