Gag orders gain popularity in high-profile cases: courts limit parties, media access in Simpson, McVeigh, Kaczynski trials

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California and federal courts in several high-profile cases have being using gag orders to limit the disclosure of information and testimony involved in the cases. An appeals court overturn the O.J. Simpson civil trial judge's order restricting all public discussion and comments on the case. The court in Ted Kaczynski's trial allowed the prosecution to discuss the contents of the suspect's journals. Richard Jewell has been allowed qualified access to FBI Olympic Park bombing investigation records. The Oklahoma City bombing trial judge refused allow reporters face-to-face access to Timothy McVeigh.

Laws, regulations and rules, California, Public and closed trials, Right to public trial, Simpson, O.J., McVeigh, Timothy, Kaczynski, Theodore

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Court rejects gag order in bombing case

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The US Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit ruled in United States v. Salameh that a district court order forbidding the parties and their lawyers from speaking to the press was overbroad. Prior to this ruling, a New York Times report stated some defense attorneys wanted to withdraw because the gag order could keep them from obtaining publicity for their work. The gag order was struck down just as the government began investigating whether another New York Times article had violated it.

Media coverage, World Trade Center Bombing, 1993

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Prior restraint on publishing lawyers' time records upheld

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The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the appeal of The Knoxville News-Sentinel, a Knoxville, TN, newspaper, against the prior restraint placed against it by the judge in a capital murder trial. The trial judge ordered the newspaper not to publish information it had lawfully obtained about the time sheets and expenses of the defendant's court-appointed counsel. The appellate court dismissed the appeal because the time sheets were not included in the record before it.

United States, Records and correspondence, Court-appointed counsel, Court appointed counsel, Prior restraint

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