Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Disciplinary Board of Supreme Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

This is an action commenced by petitioners Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. and Anthony Lame, one of its reporters, requesting this Court to issue a Writ of Prohibition to the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania prohibiting the Board from conducting a hearing on a petition that Albert B. Gerber be reinstated as a member of the bar.1 Mr. Gerber voluntarily resigned from the bar in 1972 after having pleaded guilty *384to various counts of federal securities fraud.2 Early in 1976 he petitioned for reinstatement. Upon learning that petitioner Lame had sought…