ABC, INC. v. STEWART

No. 04-0220-cr.

360 F.3d 90 (2004)

ABC, INC., et al., Appellants, v. Martha STEWART, Peter Bacanovic, Defendants, United States of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 18, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DAVID A. SCHULZ (Cameron A. Stracher, Alia L. Smith, on the brief), Levine Sullivan Koch & Schultz, L.L.P., New York, N.Y., for Appellants.

(Henry S. Hoberman, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant ABC, Inc.

(Robert Feinberg, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant American Lawyer Media.

(David H. Tomlin, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant The Associated Press.

(Charles Glasser, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant Bloomberg, L.P.

(Anthony Bongiorno, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant CBS Broadcasting, Inc.

(David C. Vigilante, Stacey Wolf, Atlanta, Ga.), for Appellant Cable News Network, L.P., L.L.L.P.

(Dianne Brandi, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant Fox News Network, L.L.C.

(Muriel Reis, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant Fox Television Stations, Inc.

(Barbara W. Wall, McLean, Va.), for Appellant Gannett Co., Inc.

(Anne B. Carroll, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant Daily News, L.P.

(Stuart D. Karle, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

(Maya Windholz, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant NBC, Inc.

(Stephanie S. Abrutyn, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant Newsday, Inc.

(Jan F. Constantine, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant NYP Holdings, Inc.

(George Freeman, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant The New York Times Co., Inc.

(Thomas Kim, New York, N.Y.), for Appellant Reuters.

(Eric Lieberman, Washington, D.C.), for Appellant The Washington Post Co.

DEBORAH E. LANDIS, Assistant United States Attorney (Jacob W. Buchdahl, Laura Grossfield Birger, Gary Stein, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y., for Appellee.

Before: KATZMANN, B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, and PRESKA, District Judge.


KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.

This case calls upon us to balance two weighty constitutional rights: the First Amendment right of the press and of the public to access criminal proceedings and the Sixth Amendment right of criminal defendants to a fair trial. A conglomeration of news organizations and publications has appealed from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Cedarbaum, J.) barring the media from attending the...

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