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MOFFITT v. WILLIS

No. 64882.

459 So.2d 1018 (1984)

H. Lee MOFFITT, Etc., et al., Petitioners, v. Honorable Ben C. WILLIS, Etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied December 19, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Herron, Richard Hixson and Jerald S. Price, Tallahassee, for petitioners Fla. House of Representatives

D. Stephen Kahn, Kahn & Dariotis, and Leonard Schulte, Tallahassee, for petitioners Fla. Senate.

Parker D. Thomson and Cloyce L. Mangas, Jr., Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth, Adorno & Razook, Miami, Robert P. Smith, Jr., Hopping, Boyd, Green & Sams, Tallahassee, and Richard J. Ovelmen, Gen. Counsel, The Miami Herald Pub. Co., Miami, for respondent.

Parker D. Thomson and Cloyce L. Mangas, Jr., Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth, Adorno & Razook, Miami, Robert P. Smith, Jr., Hopping, Boyd, Green & Sams, Tallahassee, and Richard J. Ovelmen, Gen. Counsel, Miami, for intervenor The Miami Herald Pub. Co.

William G. Mateer, Mateer, Harbert, Frey, Bechtel & Phalin, Orlando, for intervenor Sentinel Communications Co.

George K. Rahdert of Rahdert, Anderson & Richardson, St. Petersburg, for intervenor The Times Pub. Co.

ADKINS, Justice.

We have before us an original proceeding on suggestion for a writ of prohibition which would quash an order of the circuit court judge wherein he determined the circuit court had the jurisdiction to rule on a complaint against the legislature. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(7), Fla. Const.

In January 1982, the Miami Herald Publishing Company and twelve other newspaper publishing companies sued the petitioners, H. Lee Moffitt, as...

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