Twenty-two years after he viscerally dissented from the case that established the right of the press and public to attend court proceedings, Chief Justice William Rehnquist may have been handed a chance to undo the Richmond Newspapers doctrine, and it`s a chance that a concerted amicus campaign by media groups wants to stanch.
July 22, 2002 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on New Jersey Law Journal
As an associate U.S. Supreme Court justice in 1980, William Rehnquist borrowed from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolantheto register his disgust with the majority ruling in Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia, 488 U.S. 555:
“The Law is the true embodiment
of everything that’s excellent,
It has no kind of fault or flaw,
And I, my Lords, embody the Law.”
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