Legal Opinion
Wilson v. News-Press Pub. Co.
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided July 30, 1999No. 98-03481PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
738 So.2d 1000 (1999)
David E. WILSON, Appellant,
v.
NEWS-PRESS PUBLISHING CO., Appellee.
No. 98-03481.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
July 30, 1999.
Robert R. Hagman, Naples, and Louis St. Laurent, Coral Springs, for Appellant.
Steven Carta of Simpson, Henderson & Carta, Ft. Myers, for Appellee.
NORTHCUTT, Judge.
David Wilson challenges the circuit court's dismissal of his action against the News-Press Publishing Company based on an allegedly defamatory article about him. We reverse.
Wilson filed a 40-page complaint containing 14 exhibits and 118 paragraphs, most of which set out…
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