TIMES PUB. CO. v. BURKE

No. 79-265.

375 So.2d 297 (1979)

TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY and Jane Baumann, Petitioners, v. The Honorable Charles W. BURKE, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

May 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George K. Rahdert, St. Petersburg, for petitioners.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Brian E. Norton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.


GRIMES, Chief Judge.

This is a petition for certiorari to review an order entered instanter which required a news reporter covering a hearing in a civil action to testify concerning pertinent information which she had gleaned in her investigation.

The pending action was a suit by certain members of John 3:16 Mission for an injunction prohibiting John Cook, the president and director of the mission, from selling mission property. The complaint alleged that...

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