WFTV, INC. v. WILKEN

No. 95-2352.

675 So.2d 674 (1996)

WFTV, INC., d/b/a Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., Sun-Sentinel Company, Inc. and Miami Herald Publishing Company, Appellant, v. Dorothy H. WILKEN, Clerk of the Court, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 19, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Martin Reeder, Jr., and Cristina M. Simon of Steel Hector & Davis, West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Charles F. Schoech and Bill Corley of Caldwell & Pacetti, Palm Beach, for appellee.

Lorence Jon Bielby of Greenberg Traurig Hoffman Lipoff Rosen & Quentel, P.A., for Amicus Curiae Florida Association of Court Clerks, Inc.


PARIENTE, Judge.

This lawsuit arose when the Clerk of the Palm Beach County Circuit Court commenced charging $1.00 per page for copies of court records, asserting that this charge was in accordance with subsection 28.24(8)(a), Florida Statutes (1995). Appellants challenge the legality of the $1.00 per page charge. We affirm the trial court's entry of summary judgment because we find that the principles of Times Publishing Co. v. Ake, 660 So...

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