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PALM BEACH NEWSPAPERS, INC., a Florida corporation, et al., Petitioners, v. Lloyd F. EARLY, Respondent.
    No. 72-859.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    March 16, 1973.
    Rehearing Denied April 10, 1973.
    John F. Law, Jr., of Ryan, Taylor & Law, North Palm Beach, and Heuer & Albury, West Palm Beach, for petitioners.
    F. Kendall Slinkman, III, and Jos. D. Farish, Jr., of Farish & Farish, West Palm Beach, for respondent.
    Dan Paul and James W. Beasley, Jr., of Paul & Thomson, Miami, as amicus curiae, for The Miami Herald, Leesburg Daily Commercial, Palatka Daily News, Fernan-dina News-Leader, Avon Park Sun, Se-bring News, Gainesville Sun, Ocala Star Banner, Lake City Daily Reporter, and The Ledger of Polk County.
    C. DuBose Ausley, of Ausley, Ausley, McMullen, McGehee & Carothers, Tallahassee, as amicus curiae, for Tallahassee Democrat.
    Thomas T. Cobb, of Cobb, Cole, Sigerson, McCoy, Bell & Bond, Daytona Beach, as amicus curiae, for Daytona Beach Morning Journal and Daytona Beach News-Journal.
    Fred T. Gallagher, of Vocelle & Gallagher, Vero Beach, as amicus curiae, for Vero Beach Press Journal.
    Theodore Hainline, of Fleming, O’Bryan & Fleming, Fort Lauderdale, as amicus curiae, for Fort Lauderdale Daily News and Orlando Sentinel.
    S. Lindsey Holland, Jr., of Crofton, Holland & Starling, Melbourne, as amicus curiae, for Today of Brevard County, Ti-tusville Star Advocate and Melbourne Times.
    Frank J. Holroyd, Jr., Sarasota, as ami-cus curiae, for Sarasota Herald Tribune and Sarasota Journal.
    William J. McLeod, of Baynard, McLeod, Lang & Eckert, St. Petersburg, as amicus curiae, for St. Petersburg Times.
    
      W. S. Rodgers, Jr., of MacFarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Tampa, as amicus curiae, for Tampa Tribune.
    Judson A. Samuels, Hollywood, as ami-cus curiae, for Hollywood Sun-Tattler and Stuart News.
    Harold B. Wahl, of Loftin & Wahl, Jacksonville, as amicus curiae, for The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville Journal, and The St. Augustine Record.
    J. Klein Wigginton, of McClure, Wig-ginton & McClure, Tallahassee, as amicus curiae, for Florida Press Association.
    James M. Talley, Publisher, as amicus curiae, for The Sun-Journal of Hernan-do County.
   PER CURIAM.

The petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of an order denying defendants’ motion to strike the claim for punitive damages, and an order which denied in part defendants’ motion for protective order, is denied without prejudice to petitioners’ right to have such matters reviewed upon full appeal if properly assigned and argued.

REED, C. J., and CROSS, J., concur.

OWEN, J., concurs in part and dissents in part.

OWEN, Judge

(concurring in part and dissenting in part).

I would grant certiorari as to that portion of the order denying the defendants’ motion for protective order which required the corporate defendant to produce for plaintiff’s inspection and copying such defendant’s profit and loss statement and its corporate federal income tax returns for the years 1969, 1970 and 1971, respectively, on the basis that such defendant’s income was not in issue and was not a proper subject for discovery. Cf., Ernst & Ernst v. Reedus, Fla.App.1972, 260 So.2d 258.