CAPITAL NEWS v. WHALEN


113 A.D.2d 217 (1985)

In the Matter of Capital Newspapers, Division of the Hearst Corporation, Respondent, v. Thomas M. Whalen, III, as Mayor of The City of Albany, et al., Appellants

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

November 21, 1985


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent J. McArdle, Jr. (W. Dennis Duggan of counsel), for appellants.

O'Connell & Aronowitz, P. C. (Peter L. Danziger and Mary O'Connor Donohue of counsel), for respondent.

KANE, J. P., CASEY, YESAWICH, JR., and HARVEY, JJ., concur.


LEVINE, J.

The late Erastus Corning, II, was Mayor of the City of Albany for some 42 years until his death in 1983. During his later years in office he was also Chairman of the Albany County Democratic Committee. Over this historically lengthy tenure as Albany's chief executive, he collected and stored more than 900,000 documents and letters (the Corning papers) at his office in City Hall, including those relating...

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