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NEWSDAY LLC v. COUNTY OF NASSAU

Docket Nos. 12-2728-cv, 12-2731-cv.

730 F.3d 156 (2013)

NEWSDAY LLC, News 12 Networks LLC, Intervenors-Appellants, Sharon Dorsett, individually and as the Administratrix of the Estate of Jo'Anna Bird, Plaintiff, Peter Schmitt, Non-Party Defendant, v. COUNTY OF NASSAU, Nassau County Police Department, Office of the Nassau County District Attorney, Robert Ariola, Detective, in his official and individual capacities, Defendants-Cross-Claimants-Appellees, John and Jane Does 1-10, Police Officers and/or Detectives, John and Jane Does 1-10, District Attorney, Defendants-Appellees, Police Benevolent Association of the Police Department of the County of Nassau, Inc., Intervenor-Appellee, Leonardo Valdez-Cruz, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 23, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Schulz ( Jacob P. Goldstein , on the brief), Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP, New York, NY, for Intervenors-Appellants.

Dennis J. Saffran , for John Ciampoli, County Attorney of Nassau County, Mineola, NY, for Defendants-Cross-Claimants-Appellees and Defendants-Appelles.

Seth H. Greenberg , Greenberg Burzichelli Greenberg P.C., Lake Success, NY, for Intervenor-Appellee.

Before: LYNCH, LOHIER, and CARNEY, Circuit Judges.

GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:

This appeal stems from ongoing attempts by various news organizations to gain access to sealed court proceedings, transcripts, and discovery documents. Their marked persistence in pursuing the matter is a result of the public interest in the underlying, and now-settled, civil suit that generated the civil contempt action that was the focus of the constitutional right-of-access claims that face us on appeal. Despite this complex posture...

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