DAVIS v. EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL BD.

No. 96-30153.

78 F.3d 920 (1996)

Clifford Eugene DAVIS, Jr.; United States of America, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, a corporation, Defendant-Appellee, v. CAPITAL CITY PRESS; Bill Pack; Louisiana Television Broadcasting Corporation, doing business as WBRZ-TV, Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 15, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Williams, Baton Rouge, LA, for Clifford Eugene Davis, Jr., plaintiff-appellee.

Brian Anthony Jackson, U.S. Attorney's Office, Baton Rouge, LA, for United States of America, plaintiff-appellee.

Charles L. Patin, Jr., Baton Rouge, LA, Michael Charles Garrard, Gregg R. Kronenberger, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Baton Rouge, LA, for East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, a Corporation, defendant-appellee.

Jack M. Weiss, Mark Benjamin Holton, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, LA, for intervenors-appellants.

Thomas S. Leatherbury, Vinson & Elkins, Dallas, TX, Merril Jay Hirsh, Curtis E. Von Kamn, Farhana Y. Khera, Ross, Dixon and Masback, Washington, DC, Andrew James Logan, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, for amici curiae.

Before KING, GARWOOD and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.


KING, Circuit Judge:

Capital City Press, Bill Pack, and the Louisiana Television Broadcasting Corporation d/b/a WBRZ-TV appeal from the district court's February 22, 1996 denial of their motion to vacate the court's February 6, 1996 confidentiality order, from the district court's March 1, 1996 amended confidentiality order, and from the district court's March 8, 1996 order for private sessions. We must decide whether the district court's orders violate news agencies...

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