SINGLETON

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (31 total)

• Shaw From v. Tallahassee Democrat, Inc., 400 So. 2d 52 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981)
  …74 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980). As is the case of any other qualified privilege, that one may be defeated by actual or express malice. 1 A. Hanson, Libel and Related Torts §§ 137-38, 147-50 (1969); Gibson v. Maloney, 231 So. 2d 823 (Fla.1970), cert. den., 410 U.S. 984, 93 S.Ct. 1505, 36 L.Ed.2d 180 (1973). In other words, defamatory matter uttered concerning a private figure gains no immunity from the notion, contradicting alleged fact, that by nature an opinion cannot have falsely described plaintiff; such def…
• Smith v. Taylor Cnty. Publ'g Co., Inc., 443 So. 2d 1042 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983)
  …e and its various interests, not only vented his displeasure and venom but in some instances published outright falsehoods regarding the estate. In Gibson v. Maloney, 263 So. 2d 632 (Fla. 1st DCA), cert. den., 268 So. 2d 909 (Fla. 1972), cert. den., 410 U.S. 984, 93 S.Ct. 1505, 36 L.Ed.2d 180 (1973), this court found that the Supreme Court’s decision that Maloney was a public figure was the law of the case and that the article complained of was not actionable libel as a matter of law. The case was remanded…
• Maloney v. Gibson, 295 So. 2d 120 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974)
  …PER CURIAM. Affirmed on authority of Gibson v. Ma-loney, 231 So. 2d 823 (Fla.1970); Gibson v. Maloney, 263 So. 2d 632 (Fla.App. 1972), cert. den. 410 U.S. 984, 93 S.Ct. 1505, 36 L.Ed.2d 180. RAWLS, C. J. and JOHNSON and SPECTOR, JJ., concur.…