PALM BEACH NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. COOK

No. 83-330.

434 So.2d 355 (1983)

PALM BEACH NEWSPAPERS, INC., Petitioner, v. The Honorable Jack H. COOK, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Martin Reeder, Jr., of Steel, Hector, Davis, Burns & Middleton, Palm Beach, for petitioner.

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


GLICKSTEIN, Judge.

This is a petition for review of an order closing a portion of a criminal sentencing and of an order sealing the transcript of the closed portion of the hearing. Even though the hearing to which access was denied has already been held, the matters in dispute are not moot, because they are "capable of repetition, yet evading review." Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart, 427 U.S. 539, 546, 96 S.Ct. 2791, 2797...

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