BLASTIT, INC., A FLORIDA CORPORATION, APPELLANT,

v.

JERAC CORPORATION, A FOREIGN CORPORATION, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Gadsden Cnty. Times Inc. v. Mallory E. Horne, 382 So. 2d 347 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980)
  ….Ct. 2701, footnote 3, page 2704, 61 L.Ed.2d 450 (1979), citing Hutchinson v. Proxmire, supra, concerning propriety of summary judgments on the issue of “actual malice”. . Petitioners cite a Florida case, Menendez v. Key West Newspaper Corporation, 293 So. 2d 751 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1974), where the court, relying upon Washington Post Co. v. Keogh, 125 U.S.App.D.C. 32, 365 F. 2d 965 (1966), cert. den. 385 U.S. 1011, 87 S.Ct. 708, 17 L.Ed.2d 548 (1967), indicated that where the issue is “recklessness” employed in t…
• C.C. "Doc" Dockery v. Florida Democratic Party, 799 So. 2d 291 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001)
  …mmary judgments are to be more liberally granted. Cronley v. Pensacola News-Journal, Inc., 561 So. 2d 402, 405 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990); Newton v. Florida Freedom Newspapers, Inc., 447 So. 2d 906 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984); Menendez v. Key West Newspaper Corp., 293 So. 2d 751, 752 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974); Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 106 S.Ct. 2505, 91 L.Ed.2d 202 (1986). A public-figure plaintiff such as Dockery must present record evidence sufficient to satisfy the court that a genuine issue of material fa…
• Holter v. Wlcy T.V., Inc., 366 So. 2d 445 (Fla. 2d DCA 1978)
  …e merely said that Holter would possibly be involved in the investigation which was looking into embezzlement and extortion. In contrast, Halloran testified at trial that the word “embezzlement” was used. . Cf. Menendez v. Key West Newspaper Corp., 293 So. 2d 751, 752 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974) (also relied upon by appellees) which cited Keogh for the proposition that “where the issue is recklessness employed in the publication of alleged false and libelous information, that summary judgments should be more liberall…

Authorities Cited

• N. Shore Hosp., Inc. v. Barber, 143 So. 2d 849 (Fla. 1962)
• LaNorris Hobbs v. State, 264 So. 2d 84 (Fla. 1st DCA 1972)