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SEATTLE-TACOMA NEWSPAPER GUILD, LOCAL #82 v. PARKER

No. 72-2330.

480 F.2d 1062 (1973)

SEATTLE-TACOMA NEWSPAPER GUILD, LOCAL #82, OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPER GUILD et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, George Sing Louie et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. Jacob J. PARKER, Warden, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 25, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Croil Anderson (argued), of Schroeter, Jackson, Goldmark & Bender, William H. Neukom (argued), of MacDonald, Hoague & Bayless, Robert Czeisler, Office of Public Defense, Seattle, Wash., Stanley A. Bass of NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, New York City, Joel Benoliel of MacDonald, Hoague & Bayless, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Leonard Schaitman, Atty., (argued), Harlington Wood, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C.; Stan Pitkin, U. S. Atty., Albert E. Stephan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chief, Civil Section, Seattle, Wash., Morton Hollander, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees.

Before KOELSCH and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges, and BELLONI, District Judge.

EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents essentially one question: Does the First Amendment compel the warden of a federal penitentiary to permit individual press interviews with prison inmates by representatives of the news media? Two aspects of the First Amendment are involved. Is the warden in violation of (1) the First Amendment rights of his prisoners or (2) the First Amendment right of press access to the news, when he prohibits press interviews...

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