Court denies Times plea
on Nov 27, 2006 at 2:12 pm
The Supreme Court, without noted dissent, refused on Monday to block the forced disclosure to federal investigators of telephone records of two New York Times reporters. Those records are being sought by a federal grand jury in an investigation of a suspected leak about freezing of the assets of two Islamic charities soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Times plans to appeal a Second Circuit Court ruling requiring disclosure of the subpoenaed records, and in the meantime asked the Court to stay that ruling. The request was filed Friday with the Circuit Justice, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (application 06A525). Ginsburg referred the matter to the full Court, which denied the request in a one-sentence order.
The Court order reads: “The application for stay of mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit pending the filing and dispositioin of a petition for a writ of certiorari, presented to Justice Ginsburg and by her referred to the Court, is denied.”
