The People’S Right to Know : : Legal Access to Public Records and Proceedings / / Harold L. Cross.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Cross, Harold L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1953]; ©1953
• Year of Publication: 1953
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

Presents a legal reference work and an account of American relationships between the government and the people. Looks specifically at the people's right to access to information and how the concept of free information grew over centuries.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Introductory -- I. Introduction -- II. Proceedings And Records Classified -- III. The General Scene: By Way Of Background -- IV. Definitions -- V. The Right of Inspection -- Inspection of State and Municipal Non-Judicial Records -- VI. Records Subject to Public Inspection -- VII. Records Not Subject to Public Inspection -- VIII. "Police Records" -- IX. Newspapers as Litigants for Compulsory Inspection: Freedom of the Press -- Inspection of State Judicial Records -- X. Judicial Records -- Access to Judicial Proceedings -- XI. Access to Judicial Proceedings -- Access to State and Municipal Legislative and Administrative Proceedings -- XII. Access to State and Municipal Legislative and Administrative Proceedings -- Federal Non-Judicial Records and Proceedings -- XIII. Federal Non-Judicial Records and Proceedings -- XIV. The Five Non-Inspection "'Doctrines" -- XV. 5 U.S.C.A. 22 -- XVI. 5 U.S.C.A. 1001-1011: The Administrative Procedure Act -- XVII. The Statutes and the Regulations -- Notes -- Abbreviations Used In The Notes -- Notes -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Newspapers As Parties Litigant In Applications For Compulsory Inspection -- Appendix 2. State Statutes Which Define The Term "Public Records" -- Appendix 3. State Statutes Which Create, Define, Or State A General Right Of Inspection Of Public Records -- Appendix 4. Statutes Of Records For Purposes Other Than Inspection -- Authorities Cited -- Cases -- Digests, Legal Periodicals, Textbooks -- Miscellaneous -- Opinions of Attorneys General -- State Constitutions and Statutes -- United States Constitution, Statutes, Regulations, Executive Orders, etc. -- Index