TIMES PUB. CO. v. CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG

Nos. 88-02240, 88-02241.

558 So.2d 487 (1990)

TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., a Florida Corporation, Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General for the State of Florida, and Tampa Television, Inc., a Florida Corporation, Appellants, v. CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG, a Florida Municipal Corporation, Robert Ulrich, Mayor, Robert Obering, City Manager, Rick Dodge, Assistant City Manager, Michael Davis, City Attorney, Russ Cline, Manager of Florida Suncoast Dome, Chisox Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, and Chicago White Sox, Ltd., an Illinois Limited Partnership, Appellees. CHISOX CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, and Chicago White Sox, Ltd., an Illinois Limited Partnership, Appellants, v. TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., a Florida Corporation, Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General for the State of Florida, and Tampa Television, Inc., a Florida Corporation, Great American Television & Radio Company, Inc., an Ohio Corporation, D/B/a Wtsp-Tv, City of St. Petersburg, a Florida Municipal Corporation, Robert Ulrich, Mayor, Robert Obering, City Manager, Rick Dodge, Assistant City Manager, Michael Davis, City Attorney, Russ Cline, Manager of Florida Suncoast Dome, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 16, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George K. Rahdert and Patricia Fields Anderson of Rahdert & Anderson, St. Petersburg, for Times Publishing Co., Inc.

Mitchell D. Franks, Deputy Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for Robert A. Butterworth.

Edward D. Foreman and Thomas E. Reynolds, St. Petersburg, for City of St. Petersburg.

Richard H. Malchon, Jr., and Debra K. Smietanski of Robbins, Gaynor & Bronstein, P.A., St. Petersburg, for Chisox Corp. and Chicago White Sox, Ltd.


SCHEB, Acting Chief Judge.

The original proceedings from which this appeal is taken were initiated by the Times Publishing Company, publishers of the St. Petersburg Times (Times) and Tampa Television, Inc. The suit below focused on the applicability of the Public Records Act, Chapter 119, Florida Statutes (1987), to records of negotiations in 1987 and 1988 between the City of St. Petersburg (City) and the Chisox Corporation and Chicago

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