MED. GEN. CON., INC. v. CHIEF JUDGE OF THIR. JUD. CIRCUIT

Nos. SC01-1396, SC01-1398.

840 So.2d 1008 (2003)

MEDIA GENERAL CONVERGENCE, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. CHIEF JUDGE OF the THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, Respondent. Charles J. Crist, Jr., et al., Petitioners, v. Chief Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 13, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregg D. Thomas, Carol Jean LoCicero and James J. McGuire of Holland & Knight LLP, Tampa, FL; Thomas E. Warner, Solicitor General, and T. Kent Wetherell, II, Richard A. Hixson, and Matthew J. Conigliaro, Deputy Solicitors General, Tallahassee, FL; and Patricia R. Gleason, General Counsel, Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioners.

C. Steven Yerrid and Richard C. Alvarez of the Yerrid Law Firm, Special Counsel to the Office of the Chief Judge, Tampa, FL, for Respondent.

W. Robert Vezina, III, Mary Piccard Vance, and Frederick J. Springer of Vezina, Lawrence & Piscitelli, P.A., Tallahassee, FL; and W. Dexter Douglass and Thomas P. Crapps of the Douglass Law Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for the Florida Conference of Circuit Court Judges, Amicus Curiae.


PER CURIAM.

We have for review a decision of the Second District Court of Appeal, which certified a question to be of great public importance. See Media Gen. Convergence, Inc. v. Chief Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, 794 So.2d 631, 636 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001).1 We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. Because the Second District's certified question is broader...

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