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UNITED STATES v. CIANFRANI

Nos. 77-2445, 77-2462.

573 F.2d 835 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America v. Henry J. CIANFRANI (two cases). Appeal of Intervenors, PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPER, INC., Jan Schaffer and James Smith, in No. 77-2445. Appeal of BULLETIN COMPANY and Columbia Broadcasting System, in No. 77-2462.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 16, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald L. Weinberg, Samuel E. Klein, David H. Weinstein, Kohn, Savett, Marion & Graf, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants in No. 77-2445.

John R. McConnell, Joseph H. Huston, Jr., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants in No. 77-2462.

Nicholas J. Nastasi, Sanford I. Jablon, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Henry J. Cianfrani.

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, and GIBBONS and GARTH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Chief Judge.

Several newsgathering organizations and two individual reporters ("intervenors") appeal an order of the district court excluding the public from a pretrial suppression hearing and sealing the record of that hearing.1

I.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND.

On September 23, 1977, a federal grand jury indicted Henry J. Cianfrani ("defendant") for crimes arising out of his alleged...

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