Case Name: Robert M. BRAKE, Appellant, v. Don SHOEMAKER, the Miami Herald Publishing Company, a Florida corporation, and Fred Sherman, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1968-03-19
Citations: 208 So. 2d 107
Docket Number: No. 67-661
Parties: Robert M. BRAKE, Appellant, v. Don SHOEMAKER, the Miami Herald Publishing Company, a Florida corporation, and Fred Sherman, Appellees.
Judges: Before CHARLES CARROLL, C. J., and HENDRY and SWANN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 208
Pages: 107–107

Head Matter:
Robert M. BRAKE, Appellant, v. Don SHOEMAKER, the Miami Herald Publishing Company, a Florida corporation, and Fred Sherman, Appellees.
No. 67-661.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.
March 19, 1968.
Robert M. Brake, Coral Gables, for appellant.
Scott, McCarthy, Steel, Hector & Davis and Dwight Sullivan, Miami, for appellees.
Before CHARLES CARROLL, C. J., and HENDRY and SWANN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In this action for libel the trial court first denied a motion of defendants to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action. Thereafter the defendants answered and moved for summary judgment, and the plaintiff moved for summary judgment as to liability. These motions were supported and opposed respectively by evidentiary matter. After hearing but prior to a ruling thereon the pleadings were amended, and defendants renewed their motion to dismiss. Thereupon the trial court entered the order from which the plaintiff now appeals, denying the motions for summary judgment, granting the defendants' motion to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action and dismissing the cause. On consideration of the record and briefs, we affirm on authority of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d 686. See also Curtis Publishing Company v. Butts, 388 U.S. 130, 87 S.Ct. 1975, 18 L.Ed.2d 1094.
Affirmed.