Legal Opinion
First Amendment Coalition v. Judicial Inquiry & Review Board
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided April 2, 1984No. Civ. A. 83-0579PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.
On February 22, 1984, I entered an Order disposing of the merits of this case. That order, inter alia, directed the defendant Board of Judicial Inquiry and Review to provide public access to transcripts of certain categories of Board proceedings. These transcripts have heretofore been treated by the Board as confidential, pursuant to a mandatory provision of the Pennsylvania Constitution — a provision which, in an opinion filed "on February 1, 1984, 579 F.Supp. 192, I determined to be incompatible with the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
The defendant…
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