Lurie v. New York City Office of Comptroller

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, absent compelling interests such as “disclosure of sensitive information” concerning “national security,” an order completely “prohibiting the public’s visual access to a trial” violates the Sixth Amendment’s public trial right
• “Notwithstanding” COVID-19 orders allowing limited in-person access to courtrooms, “the judge presiding over Allen’s proceedings adopted additional COVID restrictions” by “preclud[ing] members of the public from entering”
• requiring “some form of visual access” including “only a small number of public attendees”
• “[L]imiting the transmission of COVID while holding a trial was an overriding interest.”
• “The existence of reasonable alternatives . . . within the courtroom[,] but livestreaming the proceedings in an adjacent courtroom satisfied the ‘predominant policy considerations’ of Bell’s constitutional rights.”
• “The existence of reasonable alternatives . . . within the courtroom[,] but livestreaming the proceedings in an adjacent courtroom satisfied the ‘predominant policy considerations’ of Bell’s constitutional rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).