Legal Opinion
In Re the Charlotte Observer, (A Division of the Knight Publishing Company and Herald Publishing Company)
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 20, 1990No. 90-5912PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Per curiam
The petitioners publish newspapers of general circulation in the States of North Carolina and South Carolina. They seek a writ of mandamus to vacate two oral injunctions issued by the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina on October 31, 1990, when the district judge enjoined a reporter from The Charlotte Observer and a reporter from the Rock Hill Herald not to disclose the name of an attorney, who had been identified in open court and in the presence of the two reporters, as a target of an ongoing grand jury investigation. The reporters were advised that they would…
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