The ultimate prior restraint
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The order of US district court judge John Feikens against Business Week for obtaining and attempting to publish information from sealed court documents is clearly a prior restraint that would have been struck down 20 years ago. In investigating the suit between Bankers Trust and Proctor and Gamble, Business Week asked one of the lawyers for documents. Feikens characterized this as obtaining the documents unlawfully and showing disregard for court orders. After ruling against Business Week, the judge promptly unsealed the documents finding that the parties had not demonstrated why the documents should be sealed.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1995
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Gag order overturned on school desegregation plan: secret meetings violated right to gather news, court rules
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A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals in New Orleans in March 1996 overturned a lower court's gag order barring the East Baton Rouge School Board and its employees from discussing development of a desegregation plan. The federal District Court in Baton Rouge secretly sought the gag order, which reporter Bill Pack, The Baton Rouge Advocate, and local TV station WBRZ-TV challenged. The court upheld its own order, but the panel overturned the ruling and found the District Court had abused its discretion.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1996
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