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IN RE PETITION OF CRAIG

No. 1645, Docket 96-6264.

131 F.3d 99 (1997)

In re Petition of Bruce CRAIG for Order Directing Release of Grand Jury Minutes. Bruce CRAIG, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 15, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lucinda A. Sikes, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC (David C. Vladeck, of counsel) (Debra L. Raskin, Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Englehard, P.C., New York City, of counsel), for Petitioner-Appellant.

Mary Jo White, United States Attorney, Southern District of New York City (Jennifer L. Borum, John M. McEnany, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel), for Respondent-Appellee.

(Mark H. Lynch, Christopher N. Sipes, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, for amici curiae supporting Petitioner-Appellant The American Historical Association, The Organization of American Historians, The National Council on Public History, and The Society of American Archivists.)

Before: KEARSE and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges, and MUNSON, District Judge.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

Bruce Craig appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Shira A. Scheindlin, Judge) denying his petition to unseal the seventy-nine page transcript of the 1948 grand jury testimony of Harry Dexter White. Although the district court recognized that disclosure of grand jury materials under circumstances other than those specifically enumerated in Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure...

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