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GLOBE NEWSPAPER CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

379 Mass. 846 (1980)

401 N.E.2d 360

GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY vs. SUPERIOR COURT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. McHugh (Janis M. Berry with him) for the plaintiff.

Mitchell J. Sikora, Jr. Assistant Attorney General (Alan B. Sherr, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the defendant.

Marguerite M. Dolan, for the Greenfield Recorder, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

James C. Heigham, for the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Ralph E. Gordon, Sr., amicus curiae, pro se, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, KAPLAN, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

LIACOS, J.

On April 25, 1979, the plaintiff, Globe Newspaper Company (Globe), petitioned a single justice of this court for extraordinary relief pursuant to G.L.c. 211, § 3. The petition challenged the April 25, 1979, order of a trial judge of defendant Superior Court, who acted under the authority of G.L.c. 278, § 16A, to close a criminal trial to the general public. The judge had denied the Globe's motion to intervene and had denied the Globe's motion...

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