District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order for writ of mandamus ordering the release of a case file number of an adoption to a petitioning alleged biological father and authorizing disclosure of portions of an adoption file is reversed in part to the extent it authorized disclosure of any portion of an adoption file since such records were protected from disclosure by state law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/22/2006
• Published 02/22/2006

Judges

• WARNER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lynn G. Waxman of Lynn G. Waxman, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew J. Xoinis of Matthew J. Xoinis, P.A., North Palm Beach, for appellee M.D.M., L. Denise Coffman, West Palm Beach, for appellee Sharon Bock, Clerk of the Court.