Merola v. Bell

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The judgments appealed from should be affirmed, with costs, on the opinion of Mr. Justice Joseph P. Sullivan at the Appellate Division, with the additional comments which follow concerning the procedures used by the trial court in this matter.

In this case it appears without doubt that there was a fulfillment of the requirements laid down in Matter of Gannett Co. v De Pasquale (43 NY2d 370, affd 443 US — [July 2, 1979]), where the court held that optimal coverage of an event can be achieved "consonant with constitutional free press guarantees, by affording the…