1.   It was almost a given that judges would bar reporters from covering trials, and would often close their courtrooms to all but the parties involved.

2.   Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has kept the testimony on pricing secret by closing the courtroom to the press and public when this confidential business information is being discussed.

3.   The proposed guidelines left individual judges free to turn down any request for television coverage or even to close their courtrooms entirely to all future requests.

4.   What would we watch, a nation wondered, now that Judge Ito has closed his courtroom and sent his robes out for dry cleaning?

5.   Despite a plea from a lawyer representing media organizations covering the hearing, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly closed the courtroom.

6.   If prosecutors wanted to present classified material, the courtroom would be closed.

7.   The courtroom was closed to the public for the individual questioning.

8.   The newspaper argued that closing the courtroom violated its First Amendment rights to freedom of the press.