SIGMA DELTA CHI v. SPEAKER

[No. 20, September Term, 1973.]

270 Md. 1 (1973)

310 A.2d 156

SIGMA DELTA CHI ET AL. v. SPEAKER, MARYLAND HOUSE OF DELEGATES ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 11, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted by Hilary D. Caplan for appellants.

Submitted by Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Jon F. Oster, Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.

The cause was submitted on briefs to MURPHY, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES and LEVINE, JJ.


LEVINE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal rises out of an action brought against the President of the Maryland Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates, for a prohibitory injunction enjoining them from preventing attendance at the sessions of their respective houses by news reporters in the possession of tape-recording devices. We are called upon to decide the constitutionality of certain legislative rules dealing with "order and decorum...

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