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IN RE WASHINGTON POST CO.

Nos. 85-2312, 85-5570 and 86-5502.

807 F.2d 383 (1986)

In re WASHINGTON POST COMPANY, Petitioner. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Amicus Curiae. Appeal of WASHINGTON POST COMPANY. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Michael Agboutui SOUSSOUDIS, Defendant. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Amicus Curiae. Appeal of WASHINGTON POST COMPANY. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Michael Agboutui SOUSSOUDIS, Defendant. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 11, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 24, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Rust, Jr. (Anthony W. Hawks, Thomas & Fiske, P.C., Alexandria, Va., on brief) for petitioner.

Theodore S. Greenberg and David B. Smith (Justin Williams, U.S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Jane E. Kirtley and Elaine P. English, Reporters Committee for the Freedom of Press, Washington, D.C., on brief, for amicus curiae.

Plato Cacheris and Larry S. Gondelman, Washington, D.C., on brief, for Michael Agboutui Soussoudis.

Before PHILLIPS and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied February 24, 1987.

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

The Washington Post Co. asks the Court of Appeals to vacate, retroactively, orders by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia closing a plea hearing and a sentencing hearing in a criminal case, and to order the district court to unseal the remaining sealed portions of the record of those criminal proceedings. We

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