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MATTER OF RUBEN R.

219 A.D.2d 117 (1996)

641 N.Y.S.2d 621

In the Matter of Ruben R. and Others, Children Alleged to be Abused. Awilda M.-L. et al., Respondents; Commissioner of Social Services et al., Appellants, and Daily News L. P. et al., Intervenors-Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

April 23, 1996

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara H. Dildine of counsel (Kenneth Rabb on the brief, attorney), for infants and Law Guardian.

Eve B. Burton and Adam Liptak for intervenors-respondents.

Pamela Seider Dolgow of counsel, New York City (Jane S. Earle on the brief; Paul A. Crotty, Corporation Counsel of New York City, attorney), for appellant.

MURPHY, P. J., ROSS and MAZZARELLI, JJ., concur.

TOM, J.

This appeal concerns the sensitive balance which must be struck between the potential trauma to the mental and physical well-being of the children in question which would result from the public dissemination of certain personal aspects of their lives, and whether those concerns outweigh the interests of the press in having free access to judicial proceedings.

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