IN RE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER

No. 90-5912.

921 F.2d 47 (1990)

In re the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, (A DIVISION OF THE KNIGHT PUBLISHING COMPANY AND HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY), Petitioner.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 6, 1990.

Amended by Order Filed November 29 and December 20, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan E. Buchan, James G. Middlebrooks, Smith, Helms, Mulliss & Moore, Charlotte, N.C., David W. Robinson, II, Robinson, McFadden & Moore, Columbia, S.C., for petitioners.

E. Bart Daniel, U.S. Atty., John M. Barton, Asst. U.S. Atty., Columbia, S.C., for respondents.

Before WIDENER, CHAPMAN, and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The petitioners publish newspapers of general circulation in the States of North Carolina and South Carolina. They seek a writ of mandamus to vacate two oral injunctions issued by the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina on October 31, 1990, when the district judge enjoined a reporter from The Charlotte Observer and a reporter from the Rock Hill Herald not to disclose the name of an attorney, who had been identified...

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