must be presumed to have concluded that the public interest was thereby being served. Public records by their very nature are of interest to those concerned with the administration of government, and a public benefit is performed by the reporting of the true contents of the records by the media. The freedom of the press to publish that information appears to us to be of critical importance to our type of government in which the citizenry is the final judge of the conduct of public business. Id. at 495, 95 S.Ct. at 1046. Thus, once certain information is in the public domain, as it is here, the entitlement to privacy is lost. This is the case even when the information in question is part of a federal income tax return. Cooper v. Internal Revenue Service, 450 F.Supp. 752 (D.D.C.1977) (<HOLDING>). Not only is there no right of privacy for
holding that tax returns and tax return information cannot regain their confidential status once the returns have become part of the public record by their use in a public trial holding that late state income tax returns fail to comply with applicable filing requirements holding that agency could not claim confidentiality for tax returns that had been exhibits in tax court and were therefore public records holding that tax returns are privileged under the statutes that prohibited the tax board and employees from disclosing any information and this privilege should not be nullified by allowing third parties to obtain the information by demanding copies of the returns holding that the lower court erred both in requiring production of copies of the defendants income tax returns and in receiving the returns into evidence over objection