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NORTH JERSEY MEDIA GROUP, INC. v. ASHCROFT

No. 02-2524.

308 F.3d 198 (2002)

NORTH JERSEY MEDIA GROUP, INC.; New Jersey Law Journal v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States; Michael Creppy, Hon. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States and Michael Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge of the United States, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: October 8, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Christopher J. Christie, United States Attorney, Gregory G. Katsas, (Argued), Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Sharon Swingle, Robert M. Loeb, Attorneys, Appellate Staff, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, for Appellants.

Steven R. Shapiro, Lucas Guttentag, Lee Gelernt (Argued), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, NY, Lawrence S. Lustberg, Shavar D. Jeffries, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, NJ, Edward Barocas, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Foundation, Newark, NJ, David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, Nancy Chang, Shayana D. Kadidal, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY, for Appellees.

David A. Schulz, Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells, New York, NY, for Amicus-Appellees.

Before BECKER, Chief Judge, SCIRICA and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Chief Judge.

This civil action was brought in the District Court for the District of New Jersey by a consortium of media groups seeking access to "special interest" deportation hearings involving persons whom the Attorney General has determined might have connections to or knowledge of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This category was created by a directive issued by Michael Creppy, the Chief United States Immigration...

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