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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND No. 35 September Term, 1995 _____________________________________

THE BALTIMORE SUN COMPANY

v.

STATE OF MARYLAND et al.

____________________________________ Murphy, C.J. Eldridge Rodowsky Chasanow Karwacki Bell Raker, JJ. ____________________________________ OPINION BY MURPHY, C.J. ____________________________________ Filed: November 13, l995

This case involves the extent to which a juvenile court can limit the media's use of information when that court gives the media access to a previously confidential juvenile proceeding. We

hold that while a court can place reasonable restrictions on the media's use of information obtained in a confidential juvenile proceeding, it cannot limit the media's publication of information which it legitimately collected from other sources, and cannot condition access to the juvenile proceeding upon the media's publication of material specified by the court. I This is the second time that issues arising from these

proceedings have warranted our review.

See In re Maurice M., 314

Md. 391, 550 A.2d 1135 (1988), rev'd, Maurice M. v. Bouknight, 493 U.S. 549, 110 S. Ct. 900, 107 L. Ed. 2d 992 (1990). In our prior Id.

opinion, we set out the facts surrounding this case in detail. at 394-97. son

On January 23, 1987, Maurice M., the three-month old

of Jacqueline Bouknight (Bouknight), was admitted to the with a broken leg. Following Maurice M.'s

hospital

hospitalization, the Baltimore City Department of Social Services (DSS) filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City (Division of Juvenile Causes), seeking a determination that Maurice M. was a child in need of assistance under Md. Code (1984)

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