MORRIS COMMUNICATIONS CORP. v. FRANGIE

No. 92321.

720 So.2d 230 (1998)

MORRIS COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, etc., et al., Petitioners, v. Susanne Y. FRANGIE, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 22, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George D. Gabel, Jr. and Brooks C. Rathet of Holland & Knight LLP, Jacksonville, for Petitioners.

J. Richard Moore, Jr. of Moore, Smith & Moore, Jacksonville, Ronald E. Reed and Laurence C. Huttman of Bullock, Childs, Pendley, Reed, Herzfeld & Rubin, Jacksonville, Thomas M. Beverly, Jacksonville, and Harvey L. Jay, III, Jacksonville, for Respondents.

Charles A. Carlson of Barnett, Bolt, Kirkwood & Long, Tampa, for Fernandina Beach News-Leader, Inc.; Florida Society of Newspaper Editors; Gainesville Sun Publishing Company; Knight-Ridder, Inc., Publisher of The Miami Herald; Lake City Reporter, Inc.; Lakeland Ledger Publishing Corporation; Ocala Star-Banner Corporation; Palatka Daily News, Inc., Publisher of the Daily News and the Marco Island Eagle; Sarasota Herald-Tribune Co.; Sebring News-Sun, Inc.; Tampa Television, Inc., d/b/a WFLA-TV Channel 8; and the Tribune Company, Publishers of The Tampa Tribune, Amici Curiae.


OVERTON, Justice.

We have for review Morris Communications Corp. v. Frangie, 704 So.2d 1143 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998), in which the district court affirmed the trial court's order denying Morris Communications Corporation's motion to quash a subpoena duces tecum served on its reporter in a civil proceeding. In affirming the trial court's order, the district court concluded, in accordance with the rationale of Davis v. State...

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