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HARTFORD COURANT CO. v. PELLEGRINO

Docket No. 03-9141.

380 F.3d 83 (2004)

THE HARTFORD COURANT COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, American Lawyer Media, Inc. d/b/a The Connecticut Law Tribune, Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joseph H. PELLEGRINO, Chief Court Administrator and William J. Sullivan, Chief Justice, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 8, 2004.

Amended: August 13, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph G. Elliot, Hartford, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellants The Hartford Courant Company and American Lawyer Media, Inc. d/b/a/ The Connecticut Law Tribune.

Maureen Danehy Cox, Carmody & Torrance LLP, Waterbury, CT, for Defendants-Appellees Joseph H. Pellegrino and William J. Sullivan.

David A. Schulz, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P., New York, NY, for amici curiae The Associated Press, The Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists, The Day Publishing Company, the Hearst Corporation, the Record-Journal Publishing Company, NYP Holdings, Inc., The New York Times Company, and Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Jay Ward Brown, Alia L. Smith, David McCraw, John K. Keitt, Jr., Jan F. Constantine, Lucy A. Daglish, of counsel).

Before: MESKILL, KATZMANN, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.

This case calls upon us to decide whether the public and press have a qualified First Amendment right to inspect docket sheets and, if so, the appropriate remedy for its violation by state courts. The Hartford Courant and The Connecticut Law Tribune appeal from the dismissal of their demand for injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Gerard L. Goettel, District Judge...

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