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STATE EX REL. CLASSIC III INC. v. ELY

No. WD 53850.

954 S.W.2d 650 (1997)

STATE of Missouri, ex rel., CLASSIC III INCORPORATED and Carl Danbury, Relators, Pulitzer Publishing Company, Amicus Curiae, Missouri Press Association, Amicus Curiae, v. Hon. William W. ELY, Judge 16th Judicial Circuit, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

October 28, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul V. Herbers, Cooling & Herbers, Kansas City, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., Smith, Gambrell & Russell, L.L.P., Atlanta, GA, for Relators.

James P. Dalton, P.C., Jefferson City, K. Michael O'Connell, Gregory M. Cork, Cullen & O'Connell, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Mark P. Johnson, Amy E. Bauman, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Kansas City, for The Hearst Corporation, amicus curiae.

Robert Hoemeke, Joseph E. Martineau, Victoria I. Goldson, Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C., St. Louis, Thomas M. Martin, Kansas City, for Pulitzer Publishing Company, amicus curiae.

Before ELLIS, P.J., and LAURA DENVIR STITH and HOWARD, JJ.

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Relators, Classic III Incorporated and Carl Danbury, petition this Court for a writ of prohibition to forbid Judge William M. Ely from enforcing his order compelling Classic III and Mr. Danbury to reveal the identities of individuals with whom Classic III's employees spoke before and after the publication of an article in rpm, a magazine published by Classic III. The evidence in the record is that Classic III and Mr. Danbury did not...

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