KRAUSE v. RHODES

Nos. 79-3640, 79-3642.

671 F.2d 212 (1982)

Arthur KRAUSE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. James A. RHODES, et al., Defendants, Attorney General of Ohio, for The Ohio Highway Patrol, Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Ohio National Guard, Intervenors-Appellants, and Kent State University, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Brown, Atty. Gen. of Ohio, Burton Fulton (argued), Virginia L. Reichard (on brief), Cleveland, Ohio, for the Ohio Highway Patrol, Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Ohio National Guard, Intervenors-Appellants in No. 79-3640.

John R. Climaco and Shimon Kaplan (on brief), Climaco, Goldberg, Boukalik & Seminatore Co., L.P.A., Cleveland, Ohio, for appellant, Kent State University in No. 79-3642.

Ellen S. Goldblatt (on brief), Landels, Ripley & Diamond, San Francisco, Cal., Rees Davis, Mansfield, Ohio, Nelson Karl, Cleveland, Ohio, David Engdahl, Engdahl, Renzo & Reed, P. C., Denver, Colo., Nicholas B. Waranoff, Jacobs, Sills & Coblentz, San Francisco, Cal., Robert S. Baker, Fayetteville, W. Va., Steven R. Keller, Columbus, Ohio, Sanford Jay Rosen (on brief and argued), Rosen & Remcho, San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.

Chester E. Finn (on brief), Charles H. Horn (on brief and argued), Estabrook, Finn & McKee, Dayton, Ohio, for amicus curiae Dayton Daily News.

Before EDWARDS, Chief Judge, LIVELY, Circuit Judge, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.


EDWARDS, Chief Judge.

In these cases we deal with appeals from certain public disclosure orders entered by then U.S. District Judge William Thomas1 in the Northern District of Ohio in the aftermath of the tragic events of May 4, 1970 on the campus of Kent State University. The civil damage actions filed by the injured and the survivors of those killed by the Ohio National Guard during the riotous events of that week have now been settled...

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