Rehearing DENIED. (orders list)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of April 28, 2006.

Petition for Rehearing filed.

Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press GRANTED. (orders list)

Petition DENIED. (orders list)

Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Distributed)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of March 3, 2006.

Waiver of right of respondent Bascom W. Bentley, III to respond filed.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 23, 2006)

Joe Ed Bunton, Petitioner, pro se

Bascom W. Bentley, III, Respondent, represented by Michael Austin Hatchell

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Amicus Curiae, represented by Lucy A Dalglish