GADSDEN COUNTY TIMES, INC. v. HORNE

No. AD-280.

426 So.2d 1234 (1983)

GADSDEN COUNTY TIMES, INC., Timothy O. Matthew, Collins Conner and Creston Nelson-Morrill, Petitioners, v. Mallory E. HORNE, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

February 10, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome M. Novey and William Snow Frates of Frates, Jacobs, Farrar, Novey & Blanton, and Sidney L. Matthew of Gorman & Matthew, Tallahassee, for petitioners.

Mallory E. Horne of Horne, Rhodes, Jaffry, Horne & Carrouth, Tallahassee, pro se.


ERVIN, Judge.

Petitioners, the Gadsden County Times, Inc. [hereinafter: Times], Timothy O. Matthew, Collins Conner and Creston Nelson-Morrill, ask this court to review by certiorari a pre-trial discovery order compelling Conner to disclose the identity of confidential sources who provided her with information which was the basis for an allegedly defamatory article published by the Times. For the reasons following, we grant the petition and quash the lower court's...

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