Media General Convergence, Inc. v. Chief Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit

Media General Convergence, Inc., and Media General Operations, Inc. are, respectively, the owner of television station NewsChannel 8/WFLA-TV and the publisher of The Tampa Tribune newspaper. They petition for a writ of mandamus directed to the Honorable F. Dennis Alvarez, chief judge of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, and argue that he must grant them access to materials related to specified conduct by one or more judges of that circuit. We deny the petition.

At issue are two overlapping categories of documents described in separate letters from the petitioners’ attorneys to Judge Alvarez.…