PALM BEACH NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. HARPER

No. 82-942.

417 So.2d 1100 (1982)

PALM BEACH NEWSPAPERS, INC., WTWV, Inc., d/b/a WTVX-34, and News and Sun-Sentinel Company, a Delaware Corporation, D/B/a Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel, Petitioners, v. The Honorable Carl H. HARPER, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

August 11, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Florence Beth Snyder, West Palm Beach, for Petitioners-Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., and WTVX-34, and Wilton L. Strickland of Ferrero, Middlebrooks & Strickland, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for Petitioner-News and Sun-Sentinel Co.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert L. Bogen, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.

Robert T. Scott, of Gunster, Yoakley, Criser & Stewart, P.A., Palm Beach, for Herbert Pulitzer, Jr., amicus curiae.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioners, two newspaper publishers and a television station, filed a petition, pursuant to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.100(d), to review the trial court action that, petitioners contend, excluded the press and public from access to a judicial proceeding.

We have considered the petition and responses and have read the transcript of the chambers conference from which the press was excluded. It is our considered judgment that the conference...

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