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IN RE A MINOR

No. 66013.

127 Ill.2d 247 (1989)

537 N.E.2d 292

In re A MINOR, Whose Name is Omitted (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. The Daily Journal of Kankakee, Appellant).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 22, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael M. Conway and Wm. Carlisle Herbert, of Hopkins & Sutter, of Chicago, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Tony Brasel, State's Attorney, of Watseka (Shawn W. Denney, Solicitor General, Terence M. Madsen and Jack Donatelli, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Kenneth R. Boyle and John X. Breslin, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, of Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Jon A. Duncan, of Mass, Miller & Josephson, Ltd., of Chicago, for amicus curiae Chicago Headline Club.

Appellate court judgment reversed; circuit court orders vacated.

JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

The case poses the question of whether a newspaper which learns through ordinary reportorial techniques of the identity of a minor charged in a closed criminal proceeding may be forbidden from reporting that information once it has entered the public domain. We hold on the authority of Smith v. Daily Mail Publishing Co. (1979), ...

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