Kenneth C. ROSSIGNOL; Island Publishing Company, a/k/a St. Mary's Today, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Richard J. VOORHAAR, Sheriff, St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office; Richard Fritz, State's Attorney for St. Mary's County, Maryland; Daniel Alioto, Deputy First Class, St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office; Steven Doolan, Captain, St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office; Lyle Long, Sergeant, St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office; Michael Merican, Sergeant, St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office; Steven Myers, Deputy First Class, St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office; Edward Willenborg, Sergeant, St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office; Harold Young, Deputy First Class, St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office; Board of County Commissioners for St. Mary'S County, Maryland, Defendants-Appellees, and
John Does, 1-50, Defendants.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; American Society of Newspaper Editors; Association of Alternative Newsweeklies; Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association; Maryland Media, Amici Curiae in Support of Appellants.
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Argued October 30, 2002.
Decided January 16, 2003.
Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied March 12, 2003.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED: Ashley Ivy Kissinger, Levine, Sullivan & Koch, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Appellants. Daniel Karp, Allen, Karpinski, Bryant & Karp, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Lee Levine, Seth D. Berlin, Audrey Billingsley, Levine, Sullivan & Koch, L.L.P., Washington, DC; Alice Neff Lucan, Washington, DC, for Appellants. Victoria M. Shearer, Kevin Karpinski, Allen, Karpinski, Bryant & Karp, Baltimore, Maryland; John F. Breads, Jr., Columbia, Maryland, for Appellees. Paul M. Smith, Thomas J. Perrelli, Nathan C. Guerrero, Brian Hauck, Jenner & Block, L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae; Lucy A. Dalglish, Gregg P. Leslie, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae Committee; Richard M. Schmidt, Jr., Kevin M. Goldberg, Cohn & Marks, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Society; Richard Karpel, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Newsweeklies.
Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, GREGORY, Circuit Judge, and Frank J. MAGILL, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied March 12, 2003.
Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Chief Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge GREGORY and Senior Judge MAGILL joined.
OPINION
WILKINSON, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff Kenneth Rossignol brought suit against defendants for their organized efforts to suppress the distribution of the election day issue of plaintiff Island Publishing Company's newspaper, St...
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