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PATRIARCA v. F. B. I.

Civ. A. No. 85-0707B. Misc. No. 86-003B.

630 F.Supp. 993 (1986)

Raymond J. PATRIARCA, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION and William H. Webster, Director and United States Department of Justice and Edwin Meese, Attorney General and the Providence Journal Company. In the Matter of Application To Adjudge the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL COMPANY and Its Executive Editor, Charles M. Hauser, In Criminal Contempt.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

March 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Curran, Hanson, Curran & Parks, Providence, R.I., for Special Prosecutor.

John F. Cicilline, Providence, R.I., Paul G. Garrity, McGrath, Kane & Garrity, Boston, Mass., for plaintiff Raymond Patriarca.

Joseph V. Cavanaugh, Edwards & Angell, Providence, R.I., for defendant Providence Journal.

Lincoln Almond, U.S. Atty., Providence, R.I., Everett Sammartino, Asst. U.S. Atty., for defendant Federal Bureau of Investigation.

OPINION

FRANCIS J. BOYLE, Chief Judge.

The Defendant Providence Journal Company (hereinafter "the Journal") was directed to show cause why it was not in contempt of a temporary restraining order entered by the Court on November 13, 1985. The order directed that the Journal not publish information collected more than twenty years ago in violation of the Fourth Amendment rights of Plaintiff Raymond J. Patriarca. At issue are three fundamental constitutional...

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