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TRIBUNE CO. v. HUFFSTETLER

No. 83-1621.

463 So.2d 1169 (1984)

The TRIBUNE COMPANY and James Tunstall, Appellants, v. The Honorable L.R. HUFFSTETLER, Jr., and the State of Florida, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied January 18, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregg D. Thomas, Steven L. Brannock and Mike Piscitelli of Holland & Knight, Tampa, for appellants.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Mark C. Menser, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellees.

Richard J. Ovelmen, Miami, George K. Rahdert of Rahdert, Anderson & Richardson, St. Petersburg, Paul J. Levine and Sonia M. Pawluc of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Miami, for amici curiae, The Miami Herald Pub. Co. and The Times Pub. Co.

FRANK D. UPCHURCH, Jr., Judge.

Appellants, The Tribune Company, publisher of the Tampa Tribune, and James Tunstall, one of its reporters, appeal from an order of civil contempt issued after Tunstall refused to reveal the source for an article he wrote.

In July, 1983, Tunstall and another reporter authored an article entitled "Complaints Filed Against Two Commissioners." The article quoted a confidential source as stating that "an influential resident of West...

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