RAMOS V. MIAMI HERALD, ET AL.

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Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida Opinion filed February 26, 2014. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D13-1788 Lower Tribunal No. 11-39752 ________________ Kevin L. Ramos, Appellant, vs. Miami Herald Media Company, etc., et al., Appellees. An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Gisela Cardonne Ely, Judge. Jose Antonio Llerena, P.A., for appellant. Holland & Knight, and Sanford L. Bohrer and Scott D. Ponce, for appellees Miami Herald Media Company, Diana Moskovitz, and Carol Marbin Miller; Reeder & Reeder P.A., and L. Martin Reeder, Jr. and C. Bryce Albu (Jupiter), for appellees Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. and Ana Valdes. Before ROTHENBERG, LAGOA and LOGUE, JJ. PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See Jews for Jesus, Inc. v. Rapp, 997 So. 2d 1098, 1108 n.13 (Fla. 2008) (holding that truth remains an available defense to defendants who can prove that the defamatory implication is true in a defamation by implication action); see also Woodard v. Sunbeam Television Corp., 616 So. 2d 501, 502 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993) (holding that the media has a qualified privilege to report the information they receive from government officials). 2

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