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KANSAS CITY STAR CO. v. FOSSEY

No. 53,196

230 Kan. 240 (1981)

630 P.2d 1176

THE KANSAS CITY STAR COMPANY, Petitioner, v. THE HONORABLE LEIGHTON A. FOSSEY, Associate District Judge, District Court of Miami County, Kansas, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed July 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myron S. Silverman, of Gage & Tucker, of Kansas City, Missouri, Scott Whiteside, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Carl W. Hartley, of Rinehart, Bright & Hartley, of Paola, were on the pleadings and briefs for the petitioner.

Dan Biles, assistant attorney general, and Robert T. Stephan, attorney general, were on the pleadings and briefs for the respondent.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

PRAGER, J.:

This is an original action in mandamus filed by the Kansas City Star Company to compel the Honorable Leighton A. Fossey, Associate District Judge of the Sixth Judicial District, to allow petitioner access to certain criminal proceedings in the case of State of Kansas v. James M. Crumm, and all future criminal proceedings which the respondent may order closed. The petition for a writ of mandamus was...

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