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MEDIA AND FIRST AMENDMENT
LAW
The firm has an extensive practice in the defense of
news organizations against libel, privacy and other
news gathering claims, including bringing most such
matters to a successful conclusion prior to trial.
The firm’s lawyers, who include
a former television reporter and editor, collectively
enjoy 30 years’ experience representing news organizations
in such matters. The firm’s lawyers regularly
advise its media clients (including Post-Newsweek Stations
Florida, Inc., the National Broadcasting Company, the
British Broadcasting Corporation, and Telemundo ) on
libel, news gathering, reporter's privilege, privacy,
open meetings, and public records issues, under both
federal and state law. The firm’s lawyers also
have opened court proceedings and records to the public
and television cameras in many high-profile cases, including
the child custody battle between tennis champion Boris
Becker and his estranged wife, the domestic violence
prosecution of then-Miami Mayor Joe Carollo, the federal
prosecution of alleged Cuban spies, the child abuse
prosecution of Kathy Bush, the judicial corruption prosecution
known as Operation Court Broom, the trial of former
Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and the William
Kennedy Smith rape trial, among others. In December
2003, the firm argued before the Florida Supreme Court
in a public records matter.
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