IN RE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (DIV. OF KNIGHT PUB. CO.)

No. 89-5803.

882 F.2d 850 (1989)

In re The CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (A DIVISION OF the KNIGHT PUBLISHING COMPANY), Jefferson-Pilot Communications Company, WSOC Television, Inc., and The North Carolina Press Association, Petitioners-Intervenors. UNITED STATES of America, v. James O. BAKKER and Richard W. Dortch, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin Osborne Ayscue, Jr., Jonathan E. Buchan, James G. Middlebrooks, Smith, Helms, Mulliss & Moore, John Henderson Hasty, Waggoner, Hamrick, Hasty, Monteith, Kratt, Cobb & McDonnell, Russell Schwartz, Charlotte, N.C., Hugh Stevens, Everett, Hancock & Stevens, on brief, for petitioners.

William Kase Diehl, Jr., Mark Timothy Calloway, John S. Arrowood, James, McElroy & Diehl, PA, Harold Johnson Bender, Bender, Lawson & Howerton, Charlotte, N.C., on brief, for respondent.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


CORRECTED OPINION

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This matter is before the court on the petition of the named news organizations seeking, as intervenors, relief under the All-Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, from orders of the Honorable Paul H. Taylor, United States Magistrate for the Western District of North Carolina, as affirmed by an order of the Honorable Robert D. Potter, Chief Judge, closing to the press and public...

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