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STATE EX REL. OREGONIAN PUB. CO. v. DEIZ

No. SC 26832.

613 P.2d 23 (1980)

289 Or. 277

STATE ex rel. Oregonian Publishing Company and David Leroy Whitney, Plaintiffs-Relators, v. The Honorable Mercedes F. DEIZ, Judge of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Multnomah County, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Oregon.

Decided June 18, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Marquoit, of Saxon & Marquoit, Portland, argued the cause and filed the brief for defendant.

James H. Clarke, of Spears, Lubersky, Campbell & Bledsoe, Portland, argued the cause for plaintiffs-relators. With him on the briefs were Michael G. Holmes and Frank M. Parisi, Portland.

James A. Redden, Atty. Gen., Walter L. Barrie, Sol. Gen., and Karen H. Green, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, filed the brief amicus curiae on behalf of the State of Oregon.

Charles F. Hinkle and E. Walter Van Valkenburg, Portland, filed the brief amicus curiae on behalf of American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, Inc.

Before DENECKE, C.J., and HOWELL, LENT, LINDE, PETERSON and TANZER, JJ.

DENECKE, Chief Justice.

The issue in this mandamus proceeding is the right of the press to attend all hearings in a juvenile court proceeding in which a 13-year-old girl was in custody in connection with the drowning of a younger child. The plaintiff, Oregonian Publishing Company, is a newspaper publisher; the plaintiff Whitney is a reporter employed by the Oregonian; the defendant is a circuit court judge.

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