Case Name: WFTV, INC., d/b/a Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., Petitioner, v. Mary ROE and Edward Horton, District Nine Administrator, Florida Department of Children and Family Services, and the Department of Children and Family Services, Respondents
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1998-03-04
Citations: 706 So. 2d 132
Docket Number: No. 98-0471
Parties: WFTV, INC., d/b/a Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., Petitioner, v. Mary ROE and Edward Horton, District Nine Administrator, Florida Department of Children and Family Services, and the Department of Children and Family Services, Respondents.
Judges: STONE, C.J., and DELL and FARMER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 706
Pages: 132–133

Head Matter:
WFTV, INC., d/b/a Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., Petitioner, v. Mary ROE and Edward Horton, District Nine Administrator, Florida Department of Children and Family Services, and the Department of Children and Family Services, Respondents.
No. 98-0471.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
March 4, 1998.
L. Martin Reeder, Jr. and Barbara Bolton Litten of Steel Hector & Davis LLP, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.
Alan I. Mishael of Gallwey Gillman Curtis Vento & Horn, P.A., Miami, for respondent Mary Roe.
Laura Cohn, West Palm Beach, for respondents Edward Horton, District Nine Administrator, Department of Children and Family Services and The Department of Children and Family Services.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Petitioner seeks certiorari review of Paragraph 4 of the trial court's order granting its motion to intervene to obtain access to judicial records. Petitioner contends Paragraph 4 of the trial court's order imposes an unlawful prior restraint in that it provides:
No names, pictures or any other identifying information involving the child in question, his biological family, his foster parent and any other children in the foster home shall be used in any media form....
Petitioner argues that the provision is overly broad because it restrains its use of lawfully gained information from independent sources separate and apart from the legal proceeding.
We grant certiorari and quash Paragraph 4 of the trial court's order. The trial court may on remand and upon proper motion and notice conduct such hearings as necessary to determine whether there is a manifestly overwhelming need for prior restraint of any information contained in the court file. See Jacksonville Television, Inc. v. Florida Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Servs., 659 So.2d 316 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994); Florida Pub. Co. v. Brooke, 576 So.2d 842 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991)(citing Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia, 435 U.S. 829, 849, 98 S.Ct. 1535, 1546-47, 56 L.Ed.2d 1 (1978)(Stewart, J., concurring)).
CERTIORARI GRANTED.
STONE, C.J., and DELL and FARMER, JJ., concur.