FLORIDA FREEDOM NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. SIRMONS

No. BQ-113.

508 So.2d 462 (1987)

FLORIDA FREEDOM NEWSPAPERS, INC., Petitioner, v. Honorable Don T. SIRMONS, Circuit Judge, Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, State of Florida, and Dempsey J. Barron, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied July 1, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin R. Harrison and William A. Lewis, of Sale, Brown & Smoak, Panama City, for petitioner.

Sharon Lee Stedman, of Rumberger, Kirk, Caldwell, Cabaniss & Burke, Orlando, for respondent Barron.

Tallahassee Democrat, Inc./C. Gary Williams, Michael J. Glazer, and Timothy B. Elliott, of Ausley, McMullen, McGehee, Carothers & Proctor, Tallahassee, amicus curiae.


BARFIELD, Judge.

Petitioner contests the closing of civil divorce proceedings in the marriage of Dempsey J. Barron and Louverne Barron in the circuit court in Bay County, Florida. The trial judge's initial ruling was based on Article I, Section 23, Florida Constitution and Sentinel Communications Company v. Smith, 493 So.2d 1048 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986), rev. den., 503 So.2d 328 (Fla. 1987).1

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