ESTATE OF HEARST

Docket Nos. 50399, 49842.

67 Cal.App.3d 777 (1977)

136 Cal. Rptr. 821

Estate of WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, Deceased. TRUSTEES OF THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST TESTAMENTARY TRUST, Petitioners and Appellants, v. LELAND LUBINSKI et al., Objectors and Respondents. LELAND LUBINSKI et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; TRUSTEES OF THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST TESTAMENTARY TRUST, Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

March 3, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Flint & Mackay, Philip M. Battaglia, Richard I. Gilchrist and William S. Walter for Petitioners and Appellants and for Real Parties in Interest.

Gary D. Sowards, Fred Okrand, Jill Jakes, Mark D. Rosenbaum and Terry Imerling for Objectors and Respondents and for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.


OPINION

FLEMING, J.

Trustees under the will of William Randolph Hearst (Trustees) secured orders from the probate court on 26 March 1974 and 5 June 1975 cutting off public access to and sealing the probate files in Estate of Hearst. Thereafter, on 21 July 1976, on Trustees' further petition to seal the files the court declared it had "no authority to seal a Probate file and bar the public access thereto absent a statute granting such...

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