NEU v. MIAMI HERALD PUB. CO.

No. 64151.

462 So.2d 821 (1985)

Howard NEU, Mayor; Robert Lippelman, James Devaney, Diane Lord Brannen and John A. Hagerty, As Members of the North Miami City Council, Petitioners, v. MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Intervenor/Respondent, and State of Florida ex rel. Janet Reno, As State Attorney for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, and As a Citizen of the State of Florida, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 17, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Martin Pflaum of Simon, Schindler & Hurst, Miami, for petitioners.

Parker D. Thomson and Sanford L. Bohrer of Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth, Adorno & Razook, and Richard J. Ovelmen, Gen. Counsel, Miami, for The Miami Herald Pub. Co.

Thomas K. Petersen, Chief Asst. State Atty., Miami, for State of Florida ex rel. Janet Reno, State Atty.

Gerry Hammond and Joslyn Wilson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tallahassee, amicus curiae, for the State of Fla. ex rel. Jim Smith, Atty. Gen.

James R. Wolf, Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, amicus curiae, for Florida League of Cities.

Robert M. Rhodes, H. Michael Madsen and Kent R. Putnam of Messer, Rhodes & Vickers, Tallahassee, amicus curiae, for Florida School Bds. Ass'n, Inc.


PER CURIAM.

The district court below certified its decision as one passing on a question of great importance. State ex rel. Reno v. Neu, 434 So.2d 1035 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.

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