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KIRSTOWSKY v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket Nos. 9061, 9063.

143 Cal.App.2d 745 (1956)

300 P.2d 163

FRED KIRSTOWSKY et al., Petitioners, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF SONOMA COUNTY et al., Respondents; THE PEOPLE, Intervener. THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SONOMA COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Intervener.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

August 8, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McEnerney & Jacobs, Garrett McEnerney II, Robert R. Barton and Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer for Petitioners in Civ. No. 9061; Cooper, White & Cooper, George A. Helmer and John E. Schaeffer, Cooley, Crowley, Gaither, Godward, Castro & Huddleson and John J. Hamlyn for Petitioners in Civ. No. 9063.

Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners in Civ. No. 9061.

Joseph Maddux, District Attorney (Sonoma County), for Respondents.

Albert K. Whitton, Robert H. Kroninger, Fred Cooper and Aubrey Grossman, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, for Intervener.

SCHOTTKY, J.

Petitioners filed in this court a petition for a writ of mandate commanding the Superior Court of Sonoma County to vacate an order that petitioners and other members of the public be excluded from the courtroom during the trial of Charlotte Black. The petitioning corporations are corporations which publish newspapers that circulate widely in the county of Sonoma and adjacent areas. The individual petitioners are newspaper reporters who are employees of...

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