FLORIDA PUB. CO. v. WILKES

No. AM-237.

420 So.2d 333 (1982)

FLORIDA PUBLISHING COMPANY, Publisher of the Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville Journal, Petitioner, v. The Honorable William Wilkes, Acting Circuit Judge in and for Clay County, Florida, the Florida Commission of Ethics, and L.H. Lancaster, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

September 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold B. Wahl, George D. Gabel, Jr., and James J. Taylor, Jr., of Wahl & Gabel, and John F. Gaillard, Jacksonville, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Patricia R. Gleason, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Philip C. Claypool, Staff Atty., Commission on Ethics, Tallahassee, for respondent The Florida Com'n of Ethics.

Lamar Winegeart, III, of Arnold, Stratford & Booth, Jacksonville, and Larry Smith, Green Cove Springs, for respondent L.H. Lancaster.


McCORD, Judge.

The Florida Publishing Company, publisher of both the Florida Times-Union and the Jacksonville Journal, petitions this Court to review the trial court's order excluding the press and public from a court proceeding and sealing the files in a case where respondent Lancaster, the Clay County Supervisor of Elections, seeks, among other things, to have the Commission of Ethics' investigation of him kept confidential. Fla.R.App.P. 9.100(d). The trial court...

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