Legal Opinion
Standard & Poor's Corp. v. Commodity Exchange, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 23, 1982No. 82 Civ. 2545(MP)PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MILTON POLLACK, District Judge.
A trade newspaper service, claiming to have been barred from hearing plaintiff’s confidential business procedures, i.e., plaintiff’s trade secrets, testified to at a brief temporarily closed session of a civil suit, seeks an order unsealing the transcript of the record thereof, on First Amendment grounds. Its application is one of first impression; no previous case has been called to the Court’s attention where the public press has sought access to trade secrets on First Amendment grounds.
The plaintiff, Standard & Poors (“S&P”), claimed in this suit that…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Branzburg v. HayesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Gannett Co. v. DePasqualeSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- In Re Application of National Broadcasting Company, Inc., American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and Cbs, IncCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981
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