New York Post Corp. v. Leibowitz

Petitioner seeks an order requiring the respondent, Sidney Strimpel, an official stenographer in the Kings County Court, to transcribe and deliver to it a copy of a charge made by the corespondent, Samuel S. Leibowitz, a Judge of that court, in a criminal trial recently held there before such County Judge and a jury which terminated in the acquittal of the defendant (People v. Surrey); also to compel such County Judge to direct the stenographer to comply with petitioner’s demand or to prohibit him from forbidding the stenographer to comply therewith. Both respondents have refused to accede to…