CAMPUS COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Appellant/Cross-Appellee,
v.
Teresa EARNHARDT, and the Estate of Dale Earnhardt, by and through its Personal Representative, Teresa Earnhardt, for and on behalf of the Estate and for the Survivors, et al., Appellees/Cross-Appellants.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 12, 2002.
July 12, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Thomas R. Julin & D. Patricia Wallace of Hunton & Williams, Miami, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee.
Charles T. Canady, General Counsel, and Simone Marstiller, Assistant General Counsel, Executive Office of the Governor, Tallahassee, Amicus Curiae, for Governor Jeb Bush.
Jonathan D. Kaney, Jr. and Daniel R. Bischof of Cobb, Cole & Bell, Daytona Beach, Amici Curiae, for Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, First Amendment Foundation, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Student Press Law Center.
E. Thom Rumberger and Ernest H. Eubanks, Jr. of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, P.A., Orlando, and Parker D. Thomson and Carol A. Licko of Hogan & Hartson, LLP, Miami, and Jon L. Mills and Timothy McLendon, Gainesville, and Dickson M. Lupo and Judson Graves of Alston & Bird, LLP, Charlotte, NC, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants Teresa Earnhardt and the Estate of Dale Earnhardt, by and through its Personal Representative, Teresa Earnhardt, for and on behalf of the Estate and for the Survivors.
Thomas E. Warner, Solicitor General, and T. Kent Wetherell, II, Deputy Solicitor General, Office of the Solicitor General, Tallahassee, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant State of Florida.
Daniel D. Eckert, County Attorney, Deland, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant County of Volusia, Office of the Medical Examiner.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
SAWAYA, J.
Campus Communications, Inc. (Campus) appeals the final judgment finding Chapter 2001-1, codified at section 406.135, Florida Statutes (2001), constitutional and retroactively applicable to the request made by Campus to view and copy the autopsy photographs of R. Dale Earnhardt.1 We affirm.
Factual Background And Issues
Mr. Earnhardt was a famous and very successful race car driver who became involved in a fatal...
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