Legal Opinion
Southern Air Transport, Inc. v. Post-Newsweek Stations, Florida, Inc.
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided May 8, 1990No. 89-59PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Per curiam
This is an appeal by the plaintiff Southern Air Transport, Inc. from an adverse final summary judgment entered below in a libel action. After thoroughly reviewing the extensive record in this case, we affirm in part and reverse in part based on the following briefly stated legal analysis.
First, we conclude that the trial court was correct in finding, as a matter of law, that the plaintiff was a limited public figure and, consequently, could not recover in the instant libel action unless it satisfied the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d 686 (1964), “actual…
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