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IN RE IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL

No. 83-1573.

724 F.2d 658 (1983)

In re the IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL and Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1983.

As Amended January 27, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence R. Elleman, Cincinnati, Ohio, for respondents The Honorable Edward J. McManus, and The Procter & Gamble Co.; Timothy White, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dinsmore & Shohl, Cynthia Nitz Ris, Mark C. Bissinger, Cincinnati, Ohio, of counsel.

Michael A. Giudicessi, Associate Gen. Counsel and Asst. Secretary, Des Moines Register and Tribune Co., Des Moines, Iowa, for petitioners.

Before ROSS, ARNOLD and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners, representatives of the press in Iowa, ask this Court to issue a writ of mandamus directing the District Court1 to release all portions of transcript under seal in a contempt hearing involving Tom Riley, a lawyer. The District Court closed part of the hearing to the press and public because testimony with respect to valuable trade secrets was to be given. It later opened all but a small portion of the...

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