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DANCO LABS. v. CHEMICAL WORKS

274 A.D.2d 1 (2000)

711 N.Y.S.2d 419

DANCO LABORATORIES, LIMITED, Respondent, v. CHEMICAL WORKS OF GEDEON RICHTER, LIMITED, Respondent. WASHINGTON POST COMPANY, Intervenor-Appellant.

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

July 27, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lorin L. Reisner of counsel (P. Bradley O'Neill and Eric Lieberman on the brief; Debevoise & Plimpton, and The Washington Post Company, attorneys), for intervenor-appellant.

Michael L. Stern of counsel (Edwin M. Mulholland on the brief; Law Office of Michael L. Stern & Associates, and Mulholland & Knapp, attorneys), for respondent.

Peter Richard Bisio of counsel (John E. Beerbower on the brief; Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and Hogan & Hartson, attorneys), for respondent.

WILLIAMS, J.P., RUBIN and ANDRIAS, JJ., concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

TOM, J.

This proceeding was brought by the Washington Post Company as intervenor in the underlying action. The Post's intervention arises from its journalistic interest in obtaining information from court records regarding the possible distribution and sale in the United States of the controversial so-called abortion pill, RU-486. The information has obvious newsworthy qualities, as can be seen from the brief summary below, but its disclosure...

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