PETITION OF POST-NEWSWEEK STATIONS, FLORIDA

No. 46835.

327 So.2d 1 (1976)

Petition of POST-NEWSWEEK STATIONS, FLORIDA, INC. FOR CHANGE IN CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 28, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talbot D'Alemberte, Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, for petitioner.

Joseph C. Jacobs, Ervin, Varn, Jacobs & Odom, Tallahassee, for the Florida Association of Broadcasters, Inc.

Parker Lee McDonald, Chairman, Orlando, for the Florida Conference of Circuit Judges.

Richard C. McFarlain, Asst. Director, Tallahassee, for The Florida Bar.

Robert Eagan, State Atty., and Donald A. Lykkebak, Asst. State Atty., for the State of Florida.

Ellis S. Rubin, Ellis Rubin Law Offices, P.A., Miami, for Rommie L. Loudd.

A. Broaddus Livingston, Chairman, Tampa, and Larry S. Stewart, Chairman-Elect, Miami, for Trial Lawyers Section of The Florida Bar.

C. Gary Williams, Ausley, McMullen, McGehee, Carothers & Proctor, Tallahassee, for Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, Southeast Region and Greater Miami Chapter, intervenor.

Richard E. Gerstein, State's Atty., and N. Joseph Durant, Jr., Chief Asst. State's Atty., for Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association.

Harold Peter Barkas, Miami, for the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, amicus curiae.


INTERLOCUTORY DECISION

ROBERTS and SUNDBERG, Justices.

Post-Newsweek Stations, Florida, Inc. filed a petition for modification of Canon 3A(7) of the Code of Judicial Conduct of the State of Florida to the extent of allowing the televising of judicial proceedings and for the adoption of a rule in relation thereto proposed by the petitioner. In our Order, May 21, 1975, this Court denied that portion of the petition which seeks approval of the substitute of...

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