Orange County Publications Division of Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. v. Council of Newburgh

Petitioner is a publisher. Its reporters requested admission to a meeting of city council members in the City of Newburgh. They were not permitted to attend the meeting. On a separate occasion, petitioner’s reporters sought admission to a meeting of the Zoning Board *848of Appeals of the City of Newburgh. They were not permitted to attend a portion of that meeting.

Petitioner now brings this proceeding to enforce rights which it claims were violated when each of the respondents barred its reporters from attendance on each of the said occasions. Petitioner seeks to have the court declare that…