CA: Accusations against Davis resurface

Sac Bee ^ | 10/08/02 | Sam Stanton and Denny Walsh

[Tony in Hawaii]

My understanding of the words "Promptly and forthwith" must be a little different than the court's.

I'm waiting....

[RooRoobird14]

ROTFLOL, byteback--I was thinking the same thing. Davis is kicked off the ballot by the party bosses, and Jerry Brown or (smirk) Willie Brown suddenly become the contending replacements.

[Iconoclast2]

Looks like SCOTUS did something I've never seen before: it let someone file an anonymous cert. petition with an anonymous lawyer. Such solicitude for the privacy rights of crooks . . .

UNIDENTIFIED PRIVATE CITIZEN v. McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS, ET AL.

02-111

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

2002 U.S. LEXIS 7388

October 7, 2002, Decided

PRIOR HISTORY:
McClatchy Newspapers, Inc. v. United States Dist. Court (In re McClatchy Newspapers Inc.), 288 F.3d 369; 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 29352; 2002 Cal. Daily Op. Service 3296.

JUDGES:
[*1] Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer.

OPINION:

The motion of petitioner to appear as "unidentified private citizen" and for counsel to appear as "Attorney Doe" is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for the heads up on this case.Here is the docket with some info. Let's dig , dig, dig, and DUMP , DUMP, DUMP DAVI$ !!!

No. 02-111	Status:	DECIDED
	Title:	Unidentified Private Citizen, Petitioner
		v.
		McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., dba The Sacramento Bee, et al.
Docketed:	Lower Ct:	United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
July 22, 2002		(01-70941; 01-10335)

~~Date~~~~~~	~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jul 16 2002	Petition for writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 21, 2002)
Jul 16 2002	Motion of petitioner to appear as "unidentified private citizen"
	and for counsel to appear as "Attorney Doe" filed.
Aug 21 2002	Letter from the Solicitor General as a non-party received.
Aug 21 2002	Brief of respondent McClatchy Newspapers, Inc. in opposition filed.
Aug 22 2002	Opposition of Respondent to motion of petitioner filed.
Sep 4 2002	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of September 30, 2002
Sep 5 2002	X Reply in support of motion of petitioner filed.
Oct 7 2002	Motion of petitioner to appear as "unidentified private citizen"
	and for counsel to appear as "Attorney Doe" GRANTED.
Oct 7 2002	Petition DENIED.
	********************************************************

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~~Name~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~	~~~~~~~Address~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~	~~Phone~~~
Attorneys for Petitioner:
John K. (Attorney Doe) Vincent	U.S. Attorney's Office	9165542700
	501 "I" St., Suite 10-100
	Sacramento, CA 95814
Attorneys for Respondent:
Charity Kenyon	Riegels Campos & Kenyon	9167797100
	2500 Ventura Oaks Way, #220
	Sacramento, CA 95833-4222
Rex S. Heinke	Akim Gump Strauss	3102291000
	2029 Century Park East # 2400
	Los Angeles, CA 90067
Party name: McClatchy Newspapers, Inc.
Solicitor General	U.S. Department of Justice
	Washington, DC 20530
Clyde Blackmon	Blackmon & Snellings	9164410824
	908 Ninth St., Suite 2250
	Sacramento, CA 95814
Joseph Remcho	Remcho Johansen & Purcell	5103466200
	201 Dolores Avenue
	San Leandro, CA 94577

[NormsRevenge]

The 9th Circuit overturned Karlton in December 2001, ruling that there was "no adequate justification" for withholding the documents.

But the letters were not released because an unnamed "private citizen" appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep the names from being revealed.

unnamed "private citizen" = Davi$ or agent acting for Davi$

[NormsRevenge]

Oct 7 2002 Petition DENIED.

Release the papers NOW, Guv! This is America, not Russia.