Hearing to Determine Release of Evidence Relating to Aviation Security of September...

Hearing to Determine Release of Evidence Relating to Aviation Security of
September 11, 2001

The New York Times Company and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press Intervene in the Case and Join 9/11 Families and Motley Rice LLC in
their Quest for the Truth

NEW YORK, March 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The fate of over one hundred
deposition transcripts and over a million pages of documents obtained from
airlines, security firms and other defendants named in civil cases resulting
from the attacks of September 11, 2001, will be argued on March 25, 2009, in
front of the Honorable Judge Alvin Hellerstein, Southern District of New York.
The families in three remaining aviation security negligence cases,
represented by Motley Rice LLC and led by attorney Donald Migliori and joined
by The New York Times Company and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press (RCFP), maintain that this evidence has broad safety implications,
public interest, substantial historical importance and that the defendants
abused the conditions of the protective order by which defendants have
asserted confidentiality. Therefore, this evidence should not remain shielded
from the public.

The surviving family members who have filed this motion, and will be present
at the hearing, include Mike Low, father of American Airlines flight attendant
Sara Low who was on Flight 11 as well as John and Paul Keating, sons of
Barbara Ann Keating, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11. The New York
Times Company and the RCFP have intervened in the case jointly and will be
represented by counsel at the hearing as well.

These families first sought to have the court-confidentiality order removed in
2007. Later the request was withdrawn as both sides tried to negotiate a
resolution. That effort failed in 2008. These families renewed their motion on
January 14, 2009 and the news organizations moved for leave to intervene on
January 21, 2009.

When:
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Hearing 4:00 p.m. EDT
Courtroom 14 D
Interviews Available Immediately Following

Where:
United States District Court
Southern District of New York
500 Pearl Street
New York, NY 10007-1312

SOURCE Motley Rice LLC

Alicia G. Ward of Motley Rice, LLC, O: +1-843-216-9548, C: +1-843-532-7011,
Award@motleyrice.com