District of Columbia v. Washington Post Co.

Petitioner’s principal though not its only contention is that Washington Times-Herald, Inc., v. District of Columbia, 94 U.S.App.D.C. 154, 213 F.2d 23, should be overruled. That case whs decided by the court in 'banc. Before the present case was' set for hearing, the petitioner had moved for a hearing in banc, largely on the ground of an alleged conflict between the Times-Herald case and the earlier case of Meyer v. Washington Times Co., 64 App.D.C. 218, 76 F.2d 988, certiorari denied, 295 U.S. 734, 55 S.Ct. 646, 79 L.Ed. 1682. That motion had been denied. When this case was called for…