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HONOLULU ADVERTISER, INC. v. TAKAO

No. 6979.

580 P.2d 58 (1978)

HONOLULU ADVERTISER, INC. dba Honolulu Advertiser, Lee Enterprises, Incorporated dba KGMB-TV, and Gannett Pacific Corporation dba Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Petitioners, v. The Honorable Frank T. TAKAO, Pauline Ishii, State of Hawaii through the Department of Prosecuting Attorney, and Wilbur Moyd, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

May 26, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey S. Portnoy, Honolulu, for Honolulu Advertiser, Inc., petitioner.

David J. Dezzani, Honolulu, for Gannett Pacific Corporation, petitioner.

Walter G. Chuck, Spe. Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu, for Judge Frank T. Takao, respondent.

Roy Chang, Deputy Pros. Atty., Honolulu, for State of Hawaii, respondent.

Before OGATA, Acting C.J., MENOR, J., Circuit Judge LUM in place of RICHARDSON, C.J., recused, Circuit Judge HAYASHI in place of KOBAYASHI, J., disqualified, and Circuit Judge BURNS in place of KIDWELL, J., recused.

MENOR, Justice.

A petition for writs of prohibition and of mandamus has been filed seeking (1) to prohibit the respondent district judge from enforcing his order sealing and preventing the dissemination of the transcript of the preliminary hearing involving respondent Wilbur Moyd and (2) to mandate the respondent Pauline Ishii, a district court reporter, to deliver to the petitioners a copy of the transcript of the preliminary hearing upon the payment of statutory...

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