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MATTER OF NEW YORK NEWS

113 A.D.2d 87 (1985)

In the Matter of New York News, Inc., et al., Respondents. Mary Ventura et al., Appellants; National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Intervenor-Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

November 20, 1985

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caesar D. Cirigliano (Michele Maxian, Ivar Goldart, Steven Asin, Arnold Cohen and Russell Neufeld of counsel; John Nehila on the brief), for Mary Ventura, appellant.

Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., Corporation Counsel (Francis F. Caputo of counsel), for New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, appellant.

Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler (Michael B. Mukasey and Emily R. Remes of counsel), and Marjorie T. Coleman for New York News, Inc., respondent; Laura V. Jones for CBS, Inc., respondent; Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Lehrer (Neal M. Goldman and Stuart Bondell of counsel), for News Group Publications, Inc, respondent; and Rogers & Wells (Richard N. Winfield and Kevin A. Fisher of counsel), for Associated Press, respondent. (One brief filed.)

Cahill Gordon & Reindel (Ellen L. Rosen of counsel), for National Broadcasting Company, Inc., intervenor-respondent.

LAZER, J. P., THOMPSON, WEINSTEIN and NIEHOFF, JJ., concur.

Per Curiam.

On October 22, 1985, Catherine Costello, a 22-year-old accountant, was shoved into the path of an oncoming subway train in Manhattan. Charged with attempted murder and assault in the first degree for this crime was Mary Ventura, who was seized at the scene. The crime attracted immediate and extensive coverage by the various organs of the news media. Within a few days it was disclosed in the press that, about one...

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