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GORE NEWSPAPERS COMPANY v. SHEVIN

No. FL 74-103-Civ-NCR.

397 F.Supp. 1253 (1975)

GORE NEWSPAPERS COMPANY, a corporation, Plaintiff, v. Robert L. SHEVIN et al., Defendants, Sentinel Star Company, Intervenor, The Miami Herald Publishing Company, Intervenor.

United States District Court, S. D. Florida, Fort Lauderdale Division.

June 19, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fleming, O'Bryan & Fleming, Rex Conrad, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Kirkland & Ellis, Don H. Reuben and Lawrence Gunnels, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., State of Florida, Tallahassee, Fla., Philip S. Shailer, State's Atty., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for defendants.

Mateer & Harbert, by Ronald A. Harbert, Orlando, Fla., for Sentinel Star Co., plaintiff-intervenor.

Paul & Thomson by Dan P. S. Paul, Miami, Fla., for Miami Herald Pub. Co., plaintiff intervenor.

MEMORANDUM OPINION DECLARATORY JUDGMENT

ROETTGER, District Judge.

Plaintiff and intervenors publish daily and Sunday newspapers in the State of Florida and seek a declaratory judgment holding that each of two Florida statutes are unconstitutional on its face as violating the First and Fourteeth Amendments to the United States Constitution. One statute requires newspapers to charge political candidates the lowest local advertising rate and the other forbids...

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