Des Moines Register & Tribune Co. v. Osmundson

McCORMICK, Justice.

In this case we are in the unusual position of issuing an opinion to explain a decision we have already made. On May 11, 1976, we entered an order in this original action enjoining defendant Honorable Robert Osmundson from enforcement of an order he entered a day earlier restraining all persons from disclosing the names, addresses and telephone numbers of jurors and alternates during the murder trial of Kan-dee Jacoby, then in progress in the Linn County district court. We ordered defendant to file the jury list forthwith as a public record in the Linn County clerk’s…