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UNITED STATES v. CRIDEN

No. 80-2622.

648 F.2d 814 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America v. Howard L. CRIDEN, Harry P. Jannotti, Louis C. Johanson and George X. Schwartz Howard L. Criden, Harry P. Jannotti and George X. Schwartz, Appellees. In re Application of NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC., American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., CBS Inc. and Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided April 20, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Marshall Wellborn, Ralph E. Goldberg, Allen Shaklan, Samuel Antar, Harlan Rosenzweig, Floyd Abrams (argued), Robert C. Meade, Devereux Chatillon, Melanie Lawson, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York City, Gregory Harvey, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants.

Richard Ben-Veniste, Washington, D. C., for appellee, Howard L. Criden.

J. Clayton Undercofler, III, Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Levy, Edward H. Rubenstone (argued), Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Harry P. Jannotti.

Richard A. Sprague, Edward H. Rubenstone (argued), Sprague, Goldberg & Rubenstone, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, George X. Schwartz.

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, and WEIS and SLOVITER, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

I.

This is an appeal from the order of the district court denying the application of the television networks "for permission to copy, for the purpose of broadcasting to the public, those video and audio tapes admitted into evidence and played to the jury in open court" during the criminal trial of two members of the Philadelphia City Council arising out of what has become known as the Abscam prosecutions...

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