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NEWS-JOURNAL CO. v. McLAUGHLIN

377 A.2d 358 (1977)

The NEWS-JOURNAL COMPANY and Wendy Fox, Plaintiffs, v. William T. McLAUGHLIN, Mayor of the City of Wilmington, Leo T. Marshall, Clerk of the Wilmington City Council, and Frank D. Vari, James M. Baker, Wallace E. Brooks, Sr., Norman D. Hughes, James F. Keeley, Richard V. Pryor, Thomas V. Quinn, Jr., Jesse W. Samluk, Frederick C. Sears, II, Joe L. White, and Charles L. Yates, members of Wilmington City Council, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

Decided July 7, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Elliott, Jr., of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for plaintiffs.

Michael P. Maguire, of Biondi & Babiarz, Wilmington, for defendants.

BROWN, Vice Chancellor.

This suit is brought by the News-Journal Company, the Wilmington publisher of daily and Sunday newspapers having state-wide circulation, together with Wendy Fox, one of its reporters, seeking a declaratory judgment under the recently enacted Freedom of Information Act as it is now codified at 29 Del.C. § 10001 et seq. The defendants are sued in their respective capacities as Mayor, City...

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