DAILY GAZETTE v. COMMITTEE ON LEGAL ETHICS

No. 16403.

346 S.E.2d 341 (1985)

DAILY GAZETTE COMPANY, INC. v. The COMMITTEE ON LEGAL ETHICS OF the W.VA. STATE BAR.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Dissenting Opinion July 12, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudolph L. DiTrapano and Rebecca A. Baitty, DiTrapano & Jackson, Charleston, for petitioner.

Arthur M. Recht, Recht & Johnson, Wheeling, for respondent.


NEELY, Chief Justice:

On 11 December 1984 this Court filed its opinion in Daily Gazette Company v. Committee on Legal Ethics, (No. 16403). That case was an original mandamus brought by The Charleston Gazette, the morning newspaper in West Virginia's capital city, against the West Virginia State Bar's Committee on Legal Ethics to require the committee to open to the public its papers and proceedings relating to disciplinary actions against members of...

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