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GARRETT v. ESTELLE

Civ. A. No. 3-76-1601-C.

424 F.Supp. 468 (1977)

Tony GARRETT v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., Individually and in his capacity as Chief Director of Texas Department of Corrections, et al.

United States District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

January 13, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred E. Time, Tom S. McCorkle, Jr., Peter A. Lesser, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff.

David M. Kendall, Jr., First Asst. Atty. Gen., Joe B. Dibrell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, Jr., Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Tony Garrett, a television reporter for Public Broadcasting System's station KERA, Channel 13, of Dallas, Texas, is before this Court asserting a First and Fourteenth Amendment right to record on film, for possible later showing on television news, the execution of the first person to be executed since 1964 in the electric chair at the Texas Department of Corrections facility in Huntsville...

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