SARASOTA HERALD-TRIBUNE CO. v. COM. HLT. CORP., INC.

No. 90-01804.

582 So.2d 730 (1991)

SARASOTA HERALD-TRIBUNE COMPANY, a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. COMMUNITY HEALTH CORPORATION, INC., a Florida Nonprofit Corporation, and Edward W. Houck, Ph.D., As Records Custodian of Community Health Corporation, a Florida Nonprofit Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 5, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregg D. Thomas, Steven L. Brannock, and Carol J. LoCicero of Holland & Knight, Tampa, and George H. Freeman and Deborah R. Linfield of The New York Times Co., New York City, for appellant.

A. Lamar Matthews, Jr., Theodore C. Eastmoore, and Arthur S. Hardy of Williams, Parker, Harrison, Dietz & Getzen, Sarasota, for appellees.


ALTENBERND, Judge.

The dispositive issue in this case is whether a not-for-profit corporation expressly created to further the interests of a public hospital and to perform various important functions previously performed by the public hospital is a "business entity acting on behalf of any public agency" for purposes of the Florida Public Records Act. § 119.011(2), Fla. Stat. (1989). Although we are inclined to believe that an exemption for such a corporation...

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