WSAV-TV, INC. v. Baxter

Eberharot, Judge.

1. A petition seeking recovery of damages for an alleged defamation by a television broadcast alleging that the defendant broadcasting station maliciously broadcast on its evening news report the scene of plaintiff’s son, on whose behalf the action was brought, as he was taken in a shopping center by the police to a squad car, under apparent arrest, together with the announcement that he was arrested by the police for throwing rocks at or into a school bus, despite the fact that the police informed defendant’s reporter who covered the scene that the boy was not being arrested…