IN RE STATE-RECORD CO., INC.

Nos. 90-5908, 90-5909.

917 F.2d 124 (1990)

In re the STATE-RECORD COMPANY, INC.; the South Carolina Press Association; the Evening Post Publishing Company; the Greenville News-Piedmont Company; the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, A Division of The New York Times Company, Inc., Petitioners. In re the STATE-RECORD COMPANY, INC.; the South Carolina Press Association; the Evening Post Publishing Company; the Greenville News-Piedmont Company; the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, A Division of The New York Times Company, Inc., Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 16, 1990.

As Amended October 16, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay Bender, Belser, Baker, Barwick, Ravenel & Bender, Columbia, S.C. (S. Markey Stubbs, on pleadings), for petitioners.

William A. Coates, Love, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason, Greenville, S.C., Ben A. Hagood, Asst. U.S. Atty., Columbia, S.C. (E. Bart Daniel, U.S. Atty., Sherri Lydon, Asst. U.S. Atty., on pleadings), for respondents.

Before WIDENER, CHAPMAN and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The above matters have been consolidated because both involve petitions by the news media for relief from "gag orders" issued in similar criminal prosecutions pending in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. The petitioners, publishers of daily newspapers of general circulation within the State of South Carolina, seek to vacate orders by United States District Judges in the two criminal actions: United States v. Luther...

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