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MICH. CITIZENS FOR AN INDEP. PRESS v. ATTY. GEN.

Civ. A. No. 88-2322.

695 F.Supp. 1216 (1988)

MICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR AN INDEPENDENT PRESS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF the UNITED STATES, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 14, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Schultz, David C. Vladeck, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

John Stuart Smith, Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, Washington, D.C., for Detroit News.

David J. Anderson, Thomas Millet, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Dept. of Justice.

Philip A. Lacovara, Gerald Goldman, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, Clark M. Clifford, Robert A. Altman, Clifford & Warnke, Washington, D.C., for Detroit Free Press.

Edward B. Cohen, Davis Wright & Jones, Paul Friedman, Anne Smith, White & Case, W. Terry Maguire, Claudia James, American Newspaper Publishers Ass'n, Washington, D.C., P. Cameron DeVore, Shelly Shapiro, Davis Wright & Jones, Seattle, Wash., Philip Anderson, Peter Kumpe, Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, Little Rock, Ark., amicus curiae.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

REVERCOMB, District Judge.

This case is a challenge to a decision by former Attorney General Edwin Meese III to approve a joint operating agreement ("JOA") under the Newspaper Preservation Act ("NPA") of 1970, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1804 (1982). The JOA would give the newspapers, the Detroit Free Press ("Free Press") and The Detroit News ("News"), limited exemption from antitrust laws.

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