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SHENANDOAH PUB. HOUSE, INC. v. FANNING

Record No. 850146.

368 S.E.2d 253 (1988)

SHENANDOAH PUBLISHING HOUSE, INC. v. Virginia K. FANNING, Executrix, etc., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 22, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Berry, Winchester, for appellant.

Phillip C. Stone (Ronald D. Hodges, Douglas G. Schneebeck, Wharton, Aldhizer & Weaver, Harrisonburg, on brief), for appellees Winchester Memorial Hosp. and H. George White, M.D.

No briefs or arguments for Virginia K. Fanning, Executrix of the Estate of Walter A. Fanning, Deceased, Winchester Orthopaedic Associates, Ltd., Richard A. Creasy, M.D., Winchester Anesthesiologists, Inc. and V. Miller, C.R.N.A.

David C. Kohler (Alexander Wellford, Christian, Barton, Epps, Brent & Chappell, Richmond, on brief), amicus curiae for Virginia Press Ass'n, Virginia Ass'n of Broadcasters, Richmond Professional Chapter, Soc. of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, and Virginia Press Women, for appellant.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., POFF, COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL, and THOMAS, JJ., and GORDON, Retired Justice.

POFF, Justice.

The issues framed on this appeal stem from challenges to several protective orders entered in a wrongful death case that sealed the discovery data, pleadings, and all the records in that case including the final order approving a compromise settlement.

On December 20, 1982, Virginia K. Fanning, executrix of the estate of Walter A. Fanning, filed a motion for judgment against several individual and corporate defendants seeking damages for the...

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