[Am-info] This IS NOW GOOD!

[Stuart J. Hysom]

I just checked the computerworld article, and it
has been changed.  It now says that the judge
ruled that news organizations /will/ be allowed to
attend depositions.  There is a parenthetic note
indicating that the earlier version was incorrect.

Mitch Stone wrote:
> 
> --- From a message sent by Hans Reiser on 1/30/02 10:53 AM ---
> 
> >The whole tradition of allowing the courts to control media access to
> >the court room, except in some very unusual cases involving, say, minors
> >and sex crimes, is bad.
> 
> The media and the public are not barred from courts of law. Depositions
> are generally not conducted in a court room, and are typically not made
> available to the public or media, though apparently some exception to
> this was carved out in the Tunney Act, an exception which the court says
> does not apply here. I believe this is the correct distinction.
> 
>  Mitch Stone
>  mitch@accidentalexpert.com
> 
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