Globe Newspaper Co. v. Superior Court

A Massachusetts statute mandated that trial judges exclude the press from the courtroom whenever a victim under 18 testified in a sex-crime trial, regardless of the victim's own wishes about press presence; during a trial for the forcible rape of three minor girls, the Superior Court (defendant) closed the courtroom under this mandatory statute, denying access to Globe Newspaper Company (plaintiff), whose challenge was rejected by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, then vacated and remanded by the U.S. Supreme Court, then dismissed again by the state court before the Globe sought review a second time.