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SACRAMENTO BEE v. UNITED STATES DIST. COURT

No. 81-7255.

656 F.2d 477 (1981)

The SACRAMENTO BEE, published by McClatchy Newspapers, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR the EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, NORTHERN DIVISION, Respondent, United States of America, William Dale Smith, Cheryl Bickford, James Cameron, Julius Fisherman, Norman Heifner, Andrew Pope, and Norman Truax, Real Parties In Interest.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 14, 1981.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing November 6, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas T. Foster, Sacramento, Cal., for petitioner.

E. Richard Walker, Sacramento, Cal., for respondent.

Before WRIGHT, TRASK and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc November 6, 1981.

EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

The Sacramento Bee petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the district court to issue no further orders excluding the press from any stage of a criminal trial. We conclude that the court's decision to close two brief hearings during the course of a two-month trial, after it had carefully considered alternatives and made findings in support of its...

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