NBC Subsidiary (KNBC-TV), Inc. v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a provision of state law governing the closure of court proceedings must be “interpreted in a manner compatible” with the First Amendment right of access
• “[A]s scores of other reviewing courts in this same posture have concluded, we determine that although the present case is technically moot, it presents an important question affecting the public interest that is ‘capable of repetition, yet evading review.’ ”
• “[Ejvery lower court opinion of which we are aware that has addressed the issue of First Amendment access to civil trials and proceedings has reached the conclusion that the constitutional right of access applies to civil as well as to criminal trials.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).