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STEVE EDELSTEIN, CITY OF MIAMI, MICHAEL J. MURPHY AND FOWLER, WHITE, BURNETT, HURLEY, BANICK STRICKROOT, APPELLANTS/APPELLEES, v. MIRIAM DONNER AND ARTHUR J. MORBURGER, APPELLEES/APPELLANTS.

PER CURIAM.

We affirm the trial court's issuance of a Peremptory Writ of Mandamus insofar as it requires the production of materials claimed to be protected by a non-existent work product exemption to the Public Records Act, Chapter 119, Florida Statutes (1981). Parsons Whittemore, Inc. v. Metropolitan Dade County, 429 So.2d 343 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983); Donner v. Edelstein, 423 So.2d 367 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982); Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. City of North Miami, 420 So.2d 653 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982); Tober v. Sanchez, 417 So.2d 1053 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982), review denied, 426 So.2d 27 (Fla. 1983); Donner v. Edelstein, 415 So.2d 830 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982).

We reverse the trial court's ruling approving an attorney-client privilege as a ground for denying production under the Public Records Act. Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. City of North Miami, No 83-688, 452 So.2d 572 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983) ( City of North Miami II). As in City of North Miami II, we certify that this decision passes upon a question of great public importance:

The trial court did not have the benefit of City of North Miami II when it made its ruling.

Does the attorney-client privilege section of the Florida Evidence Code exempt from the disclosure requirements of the Public Records Act written communications between a lawyer and his public-entity client?

Orders pertaining to the grant of production affirmed; orders pertaining to the denial of production reversed; question certified.

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EDELSTEIN v. DONNER
(May 8, 1984)