In Re Globe Newspaper Company, United States of America v. Edmund M. Hurley, Appeal of Globe Newspaper Company

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

The Globe Newspaper Company (“Globe”) appeals from an order of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts which effectively denied to Globe reporters permission to examine the names and addresses of jurors who had participated in a just-completed criminal trial. The Globe alternatively petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the district court to release the jury list. The Globe argues that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, as well as the Jury Selection and Service Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1861 et seq., the relevant local district…