SHEVIN v. BYRON, HARLESS, SCHAFFER, REID & ASSOCIATES, INC.

Nos. 54405, 54406.

379 So.2d 633 (1980)

Robert L. SHEVIN, Etc., et al., Petitioners/Appellants, v. BYRON, HARLESS, SCHAFFER, REID AND ASSOCIATES, INC., etc., et al., Respondents/Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Sharyn L. Smith, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Frank A. Vickory and Richard A. Hixson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tallahassee, and F.R. Brock of Wildt, Quesada, Brock & Skinner, Jacksonville, for petitioners/appellants.

William H. Adams, III, and Stephen D. Lobrano of Mahoney, Hadlow & Adams, Jacksonville, for respondents/appellees.

Delbridge L. Gibbs and Gerald W. Weedon of Marks, Gray, Conroy & Gibbs, Jacksonville, for Delbridge L. Gibbs, as Attorney for Undisclosed Intervenors, on the Interpretation of § 119.011(1) Florida Statutes; Steven Carta of Smith & Carta, Fort Myers, for News-Press Pub. Co.; Dawson A. McQuaig, Gen. Counsel, and William Lee Allen, Asst. Counsel, Jacksonville, for City of Jacksonville; C. Gary Williams of Ausley, McMullen, McGehee, Carothers & Proctor, Tallahassee, for Florida Society of Newspaper Editors; and George K. Rahdert of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans, Tampa, for Times Pub. Co., amici curiae.


ALDERMAN, Justice.

We have for review the decision of the District Court of Appeal, First District, in Byron, Harless, etc., Assoc. v. State, 360 So.2d 83 (Fla. 1st DCA 1978), which has been certified to us as having passed upon a question of great public interest.1 The question certified is whether a right of privacy exists under either the federal or the state constitution which renders Florida...

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