HOUCHINS v. KQED, INC.

No. A-594.

429 U.S. 1341 (1977)

97 S.Ct. 773

50 L.Ed.2d 733

HOUCHINS, SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA, v. KQED, INC., ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 1, 1977.


MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, Circuit Justice.

Applicant Houchins is the Sheriff of Alameda County in the State of California and in that capacity controls access of the press and public to the Alameda County jail. Respondents KQED, Inc., a nonprofit educational television-radio station, and the Alameda and Oakland branches of the NAACP, sued applicant in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in order to obtain an injunction granting KQED...

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