THE HEARST CORPORATION, ET AL.
v.
STATE OF MARYLAND.
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
December 5, 1984.
December 5, 1984.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Theodore Sherbow, Baltimore (Judith C. Levinson, and Weinberg & Green, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant The Hearst Corp.
Elizabeth Honeywell, Baltimore (Douglas D. Connah, Jr., G. Stewart Webb, Jr., Leslie A. Vial, and Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant, A.S. Abell Pub. Co.
Arthur B. Hanson, Hanson, O'Brien, Birney & Butler, Rockville, Steven Bookshester, Richard M. Schmidt, Jr., J. Brian DeBoice and Cohn & Marks, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, American Soc. of Newspaper Editors and Nat. Ass'n of Broadcasters.
Dennis M. Sweeney, Deputy Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., and Rebecca M. Hornbeck, Staff Atty., Baltimore, on the brief), for appellee.
Argued before GILBERT, C.J., WILNER, J., and JAMES C. MORTON, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.
GILBERT, Chief Judge.
The "bottom line" of this appeal has been mooted by events. The mootness occurs because the day after the appeal was noted, the State provided The Hearst Corporation and the A.S. Abell Publishing Company, appellants,1 with the information the publishers had sought from the presiding judge in a criminal trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. Notwithstanding mootness, which mandates dismissal of this appeal...
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