IN RE SPECIAL GRAND JURY (FOR ANCHORAGE, ALASKA)

No. 81-3527.

674 F.2d 778 (1982)

In re SPECIAL GRAND JURY (FOR ANCHORAGE, ALASKA).

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 17, 1982.

As Amended April 26, 1982.

Rehearing Denied May 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher J. Hunt, San Francisco, Cal., argued, for appellants; William H. Bittner, Birch, Horton, Bittner, Monroe, Pestinger & Anderson, Anchorage, Alaska, William A. Brockett, John W. Keker, Keker & Brockett, San Francisco, Cal., on brief.

William Martin, Dept. of Justice, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before FARRIS, FERGUSON and NELSON, Circuit Judges.


FERGUSON, Circuit Judge:

The appellants are the subjects of an investigation by a Special Grand Jury which has been sitting in the District of Alaska for approximately two years. They moved in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska for access to certain ministerial records1 in the regularly maintained court files for that Special Grand Jury. The district judge denied the motion on the theory that the movants, because...

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