Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press v. American Telephone & Telegraph Company

*1036WILKEY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs in this action are two newspaper-publishing corporations;1 twelve individual journalists;2 and the “Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press,” a legal research and defense fund organization established to protect the interests of the institutional press. The defendants in this case are the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (“AT&T”) and the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (“C & P”). Plaintiffs brought suit in the District Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the First and Fourth Amendments require that prior notice be…