Overview
Administrative Information
Historical Note
Scope and Content
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0580
Creator:
Stanford Daily.
Title: Zurcher v. The Stanford Daily records
Dates: 1969-1999
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36-48 hours in advance. For more
information on paging collections, see the department's website:
http://library.stanford.edu/spc .
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Custodial History
Gift of The Stanford Daily, 1999.
Information about Access
The materials are open for research use.
Ownership & Copyright
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
Cite As
[Identification of item], Zurcher v. The Stanford Daily Records (SC0580). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Historical Note
On April 12, 1971, Palo Alto police officers obtained a warrant to search the offices of the student newspaper The Stanford
Daily for photographic evidence of the April 9th Stanford University Hospital sit-in, in which property was damaged and nine
officers injured. It was the first known use of a search warrant in an American newspaper office. On May 12, The Daily filed
a law suit against James Zurcher, chief of police, and other officers claiming that the search was in violation of First,
Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The case attracted national attention and became a test of the freedom of the press.
Although lower courts upheld the case it was later reversed by the U. S. Supreme Court.
Scope and Content
These records, created by The Stanford Daily as well as their attorneys (Jerome B. Falk, Jr. and Robert H. Mnookin of the
Howard, Prim, Rice, Nemerovski, Canday & Pollack law firm and Anthony G. Amsterdam of the Stanford Law School), include correspondence,
1971-80; legal documents (depositions, motions, petitions, briefs, and others), 1974-1978; a notebook on the case's oral argument
kept by attorney Jerome B. Falk; transcripts from the trial, 1971-72; and clippings and news articles, 1971-1978. There is
also a trial transcript from an earlier case (testimony of Mark Weinberger in People v. Steven Kessler, Oct. 23, 1969) involving
The Stanford Daily photographers covering a demonstration.
Correspondents include attorneys Anthony G. Amsterdam, Robert H. Mnookin, Jerome B. Falk, Jr., and Franklin R. Garfield; Daily
editors Felicity Barringer, Edward H. Kohn, and Fred Mann; and Peter G. Stone and Marilyn D. Norek, attorneys for Palo Alto.
Access Terms
Falk, Jerome B.
Kohn, Edward H.
Mann, Frederick G.
Mnookin, Robert H.
Norek, Marilyn D.
Stone, Peter G.
Taubman, Felicity Barringer.
Freedom of the press--Cases.--United States
Freedom of the press--United States.
Stanford Daily.