SENTINEL COMMUNICATIONS CO. v. SMITH

No. 86-36.

493 So.2d 1048 (1986)

SENTINEL COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, Petitioner, v. The Honorable D.C. SMITH, Etc., Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied September 11, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Mateer and Clay H. Coward, of Mateer & Harbert, P.A., Orlando, for petitioner.

E. Thom Rumberger, Sharon Lee Stedman, Michael R. Levin, and David R. Gemmer, of Rumberger, Kirk, Caldwell, Cabaniss & Burke, P.A., Orlando, for respondent Dominick J. Salfi.

Alan B. Robinson, Orlando, for Dominick J. Salfi, Jr., Dea Salfi Barrs and Don Salfi, respondents.

Mark P. Rabinowitz, of Heffernan & Rabinowitz, P.A., Altamonte Springs, for Dawn Salfi, respondent.

No appearance for The Honorable D.C. Smith, Retired Circuit Judge.


COWART, Judge.

This case involves the rights of the parties, and children of the parties, to have the court records in a domestic relations case sealed and kept sealed as against the desire of a newspaper to have the court records unsealed and the contents published.

From time immemorial in Florida, and elsewhere, trial judges, particularly juvenile judges and chancery judges sitting in domestic relations cases, have had, and regularly exercised, an inherent...

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