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BERTOLDI v. WACHTLER

No. 171, Docket 91-7494.

952 F.2d 656 (1991)

Anthony BERTOLDI, as president of the New York State Court Clerks Association, John F. Lyons, Francis J. Carroll, Jr., and Michael Sexton, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Sol WACHTLER, as Chief Judge of the State of New York and Chief Judicial Officer of the Unified Court System of the State of New York, Matthew T. Crosson, as Chief Administrator of the Unified Court System for the State of New York, New York State Ethics Commission for the Unified Court System for the State of New York, David S. Gould, David B. Filvaroff, Thomas E. Mercure, George Bundy Smith, and Carol L. Ziegler, as members of the New York State Ethics Commission for the Unified Court System for the State of New York, and the State of New York, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan M. Landsman, New York City (Robert J. Bishop, Richard A. Lafont, Shea & Gould, New York City), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Dennis J. Saffran, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., Kenneth Falk, Michael Colodner, New York State Office of Court Admin., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before NEWMAN and PRATT, Circuit Judges, and POLLACK, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Once again we are asked, in the context of a financial disclosure requirement, to mediate between "the individual interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters," Whalen v. Roe, 429 U.S. 589, 599, 97 S.Ct. 869, 876, 51 L.Ed.2d 64 (1977), and "the benefits widely felt to be derived from openness and from an informed public." Slevin v. City of New York, 551 F.Supp. 917

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