HALIFAX HOSP. MED. CENT. v. NEWS-JOURNAL

No. 92,047.

724 So.2d 567 (1999)

HALIFAX HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER, Petitioner, v. NEWS-JOURNAL CORPORATION, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 21, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold C. Hubka of Black, Crotty, Sims, Hubka, Burnett, Birch & Samuels, L.L.P., Daytona Beach, and Frederick W. Leonhardt, Jack A. Kirschenbaum, and G. Robertson Dilg of Gray, Harris & Robinson, P.A., Orlando, for Petitioner.

Jonathan D. Kaney, Jr. and Jonathan D. Kaney, III, of Cobb Cole & Bell, Daytona Beach, for Respondent.

Richard A. Harrison and Tabatha A. Liebert of Allen, Dell, Frank & Trinkle, P.A., Tampa, for Florida Health Sciences Center, Inc., Amicus Curiae.

William R. Scherer and Vanessa A. Reynolds of Conrad & Scherer, Fort Lauderdale, for North Broward Hospital District, Amicus Curiae.

George K. Rahdert and Patricia Fields Anderson of Rahdert, Anderson, McGowan & Steele, P.A., St. Petersburg, for Times Publishing Company d/b/a The St. Petersburg Times, Amicus Curiae.

Robert Rivas of Rivas & Rivas, Boca Raton, for The First Amendment Foundation, The Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, Florida Today, The Orlando Sentinel, The Palm Beach Post and The Sun-Sentinel, Amicus Curiae.


WELLS, J.

We have for review Halifax Hospital Medical Center v. News-Journal Corporation, 701 So.2d 434 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997), which expressly declared unconstitutional section 395.3035(4), Florida Statutes (1995), and in which the district court certified the following question to be of great public importance:

IS THE EXCEPTION CONTAINED IN § 395.3035(4), FLORIDA STATUTES, UNCONSTITUTIONAL UNDER THE PROVISIONS...

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