BALTIMORE RADIO SHOW, INC. v. STATE

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Marbury, with whom were John W.T. Webb and Marbury, Miller & Evans on the brief, for the appellant, The Baltimore Radio Show, Inc.

J. Purdon Wright, with whom were W. Frank Every, William Bruce Oswald and Paul D.P. Spearman on the brief, for the appellant, The Baltimore Broadcasting Corporation.

Hilary W. Gans, with whom was Charles Markell, Jr., on the brief, for the appellants, The Maryland Broadcasting Co. and James P. Connolly.

Hall Hammond, Attorney General and Harrison L. Winter, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were J. Bernard Wells, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, Anselm Sodaro and J. Harold Grady, Assistant State's Attorneys, on the brief, for the appellee.

Briefs of amici curiae supporting appellants were filed by William L. Marbury for the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Elisha Hanson, Arthur B. Hanson and William K. Van Allen for the American Newspaper Publishers Association; Harry N. Baetjer, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Edwin F.A. Morgan, Frederick W. Brune, and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes for the A.S. Abell Co.; and Don Petty for the National Association of Broadcasters.

Briefs of amici curiae supporting appellees were filed by James B. Maginnis, E. Paul Mason, Jr., and J. Nicholas Shriver, Jr., for the Junior Bar Association of Baltimore City; James Lawrence Fly, Joseph I. Paper, John H. Skeen, Jr., for the Maryland Civil Liberties Committee, Inc., and the American Civil Liberties Union, Inc.; and George Cochran Doub and Charles G. Page for the Bar Association of Baltimore City.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, GRASON, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.