MTR. JOHNSON NEWS. v. HAMBLIN


131 Misc.2d 72 (1986)

In the Matter of Johnson Newspaper Corporation, Doing Business as Watertown Daily Times, Petitioner, v. Dorothy Hamblin, as City Court Clerk of the Watertown City Court, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court, Jefferson County.

February 17, 1986


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bond, Schoeneck & King for petitioner. Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Charles F. Corcoran, Jr., of counsel), for respondents.


J. ROBERT LYNCH, J.

The petitioner owns the Watertown Daily Times, a newspaper circulated throughout northern New York. It concedes that New York does not recognize a Federal constitutional right of the public, and hence, the press, to access to court documents. It believes that the facts underlying this motion make such recognition necessary. We are constrained to disagree.

On January 16, 1986, Charles Fedora was arraigned before the respondent...

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