LANZA v. N. Y. STATE JOINT LEG. COMM.


3 A.D.2d 531 (1957)

Joseph Lanza et al., Respondents, v. New York State Joint Legislative Committee On Government Operations et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 14, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold Bauman of counsel (Boris S. Berkovitch, attorney), for appellants.

Edward H. Levine of counsel (Vernon C. Rossner with him on the brief), for respondents.

Emanuel Redfield for New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiæ.

BREITEL, J. P., RABIN, FRANK, VALENTE and McNALLY, JJ., concur.


Per Curiam.

This proceeding involves the question whether a Joint Legislative Committee may be restrained from making public a tape recording and a transcript thereof of the supposedly private consultation between attorney and client in a local county jail. The client had been arrested as a parole violator. While in the local jail he was permitted to confer with his lawyer. The room, unknown to the lawyer or the prisoner...

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