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Gatehouse Media New York Holdings, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of New York, No. CLA-2018-2227 · judgment February 13, 2019


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether an application to a trial court by the press, as a surrogate for the public, in exercising its constitutionally required ability to be heard in opposition to a denial of the presumptive First Amendment right of access to voir dire questionnaires used to select the jury in a controversial murder prosecution may be denied by the failure of state criminal procedural rules to authorize standing for that purpose? (i)

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Michael John Grygiel
Greenberg Traurig, LLP

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 26 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
  3. May 14 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 14, 2019)