Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press v. American Telephone & Telegraph Company

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge,

concurring in part and concurring in the result:

I agree that appellants have not established their entitlement to the broad and extraordinary decree they seek in this litigation. In my view, there has not yet been a showing that the commonplace prohibitory injunction cannot safeguard, to the limit legally warranted, the constitutional interests appellants assert. In the same breath I hasten to acknowledge that certain of the appellants have brought forth enough to demonstrate a need for additional proceedings in the District Court with an eye toward…