COLEMAN v. O'SHEA


184 Misc.2d 238 (2000)

707 N.Y.S.2d 308

DIANA COLEMAN et al., Plaintiffs, and THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, by ELIOT SPITZER, as Attorney General of the State of New York, et al., Intervenors, v. CHARLES O'SHEA, as Chairman of the Board of Assessors of the County of Nassau, et al., Defendants. In the Matter of NEWS 12 LONG ISLAND, Proposed Intervenor.

Supreme Court, Nassau County.

March 27, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Siegel, Fenchel & Peddy, P. C., Garden City (William D. Siegel of counsel), New York Civil Liberties Union (Leon Friedman, New York City, and Donald Shaffer, Mineola, of counsel), and Koppel, Martone, Leistman & Herman, Mineola (Donald Leistman of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, New York City (Andrew Celli, Mark G. Peters and Tynia D. Richard of counsel), for the People of the State of New York, intervenor.

Sanford Cohen, United States Attorney, Brooklyn, for the United States of America, intervenor.

Farrel Fritz, P. C., Uniondale (Dolores Fredrich, James Wicks and Jennifer Mone of counsel), for defendants.


OPINION OF THE COURT

F. DANA WINSLOW, J.

At the pretrial conference held on March 24, 2000, the court received an application from News 12 Long Island for an order seeking permission to conduct gavel-to-gavel audio/visual coverage of the trial of this matter scheduled to commence March 28, 2000.

The plaintiffs consented to this application without reservation or limitation. The intervenors, the United States Government as well as the Attorney General...

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