At a hear­ing, the Las Vegas Sun sought an order requir­ing the Review-Journal to resume print­ing its news­pa­per

A fed­eral judge is weigh­ing a request by the Las Vegas Sun to revive the last news­pa­per joint oper­at­ing arrange­ment in the United States and force the Las Vegas Review-Journal to resume print­ing and dis­trib­ut­ing the Sun.

An evid­en­tiary hear­ing on the Sun’s request, held Monday and Tues­day before U.S. Dis­trict Judge Anne Traum, came two weeks after the Review-Journal stopped pub­lish­ing the Sun as a daily news­pa­per insert. The Review-Journal received court approval to stop print­ing the Sun insert after the 9th U.S. Cir­cuit Court of Appeals ruled that the news­pa­pers’ 2005 agree­ment never received proper fed­eral approval and was “unlaw­ful and unen­force­able.”

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