No. 18-1428

Gatehouse Media New York Holdings, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al.

Lower Court: New York
Docketed: 2019-05-15
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: criminal-procedure first-amendment press press-access press-rights public public-access public-right standing voir-dire
Key Terms:
FirstAmendment DueProcess Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the failure of state criminal procedural rules to authorize standing for the press to assert the public's First Amendment right of access to voir dire questionnaires used in a controversial murder prosecution violates the First Amendment

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether an application to a trial court by the press, as a surrogate for the public, in exercising its constitutionally required ability to be heard in opposition to a denial of the presumptive First Amendment right of access to voir dire questionnaires used to select the jury in a controversial murder prosecution may be denied by the failure of state criminal procedural rules to authorize standing for that purpose? (i)

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-06-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-05-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 14, 2019)

Attorneys

GATEHOUSE MEDIA NEW YORK HOLDINGS, INC., et al.
Michael John GrygielGreenberg Traurig, LLP, Petitioner