Ithaca Journal News, Inc. v. City Court of Ithaca

The petition in this proceeding (brought under CPLR, art. 78) requests an order prohibiting the City Court of the City of Ithaca and the City Court Judge *74from continuing to assume jurisdiction over a criminal contempt of court proceeding. (The City Prosecutor is not a necessary party to this proceeding and as to him this proceeding should be dismissed.) Petitioners are Ithaca Journal News, Inc., Eandall E. Shew, its managing editor and Patricia Nordheimer, one of its reporters. The corporation publishes a daily newspaper, the Ithaca Journal. The criminal contempt of court proceedings were…