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IN RE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASS'N

No. M-11-189 (PKL).

49 F.Supp.2d 274 (1999)

In re Petition of AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, American Society of Legal History, Organization of American Historians and Society of American Archivists for Order Directing Release of Grand Jury Minutes.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

May 13, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C. New York City, Debra L. Raskin, of counsel, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, David C. Vladeck, of counsel, Brian Wolfman, of counsel, Lucinda A. Sikes, Sunnyvale, CA, for Petitioners.

Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for Southern District of New York, New York City, Jonathan A. Willens, of counsel, Michael G. McGovern, of counsel, for Respondent U.S.

OPINION AND ORDER

LEISURE, District Judge.

A half century ago, Alger Hiss, a former high-ranking State Department official, was convicted for committing perjury in responding to allegations that he was a Soviet spy. The matter presently before the Court concerns the two special grand juries convened from 1947 to 1950 to investigate allegations of espionage, the first of which handed up the indictment underlying Hiss's conviction. Petitioners, a coalition...

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