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PROVIDENCE JOURNAL v. FED. BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Nos. 79-1056, 79-1067.

595 F.2d 889 (1979)

PROVIDENCE JOURNAL COMPANY, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, Defendant, Appellee, v. Raymond L. S. PATRIARCA, Intervenor, Appellee. Appeal of UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Defendant. PROVIDENCE JOURNAL COMPANY, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION et al., Defendants, Appellees. Appeal of Raymond L. S. PATRIARCA, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 20, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Schaitman and Michael Jay Singer, Attys. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on motion for stay pending appeal for Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al.

William M. Kunstler, New York City, and Harris L. Berson, Providence, R. I., on motion for stay pending appeal for Raymond L. S. Patriarca.

Matthew F. Medeiros, Joseph V. Cavanagh, Jr., and Edwards & Angell, Providence, R. I., on memorandum in opposition to the motions for stay for Providence Journal Co.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Defendants, Federal Bureau of Investigation and others, and Intervenor, Raymond L. S. Patriarca, have requested stays pending their appeals of the district court's order that certain FBI documents be forthwith disclosed to the plaintiff, Providence Journal Company. These documents reflect the results of an unauthorized and illegal wiretap which the FBI maintained at Patriarca's place of business in 1962-65. Defendants and the Intervenor...

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