Gatehouse Media New York Holdings, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al.
FirstAmendment DueProcess Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
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 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)