COURTROOM TELEVISION NETWORK LLC, Appellant,
v.
STATE OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents.
Court of Appeals of the State of New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 27, 2005.
Decided June 16, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Armonk and Washington, D.C. (David Boies, Jonathan Sherman, David A. Barrett and George F. Carpinello of counsel), and Douglas P. Jacobs, New York City, for appellant.
Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, New York City (Caitlin Halligan and Gregory Silbert of counsel), for State of New York and others, respondents.
Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York City (Janet L. Zaleon, Kristin M. Helmers and Jane R. Goldberg of counsel), for Robert Morgenthau, respondent.
Mickey H. Osterreicher, Buffalo, and Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C. (Timothy L. Jucovy of counsel), for National Press Photographers Association and others, amici curiae.
Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York City (Thomas E. Riley, Philip Pfeffer and Jennifer Wilson of counsel), for New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae.
Richard Sexton, New York City, amicus curiae.
Kenneth G. Standard, Albany, Slade R. Metcalf, Kevin W. Goering, Edward J. Klaris and Aimee E. Saginaw for New York State Bar Association, amicus curiae.
Jonathan E. Gradess, Albany, and Stephanie J. Batcheller for New York State Defenders Association, amicus curiae.
McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams, P.C., Albany (Michael J. Grygiel and Morgan A. Costello of counsel), for Clear Channel Communications, Inc., amicus curiae.
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, New York City (Saul B. Shapiro of counsel), for ABC, Inc. and others, amici curiae.
Chief Judge KAYE and Judges CIPARICK, ROSENBLATT, GRAFFEO, READ and R.S. SMITH concur.
Court of Appeals of the State of New York.
OPINION OF THE COURT
G.B. SMITH, J.
The primary issue on this appeal is whether Civil Rights Law § 52, which bans audiovisual coverage of most courtroom proceedings,1 violates the Federal or State Constitution. We agree with the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division that there is no First Amendment or New York Constitution, article I, § 8 right to televise a trial.
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