Online newspaper refuses to honor federal court order to remove video clips relating to Gulf oil spill

An online newspaper The Daily is refusing to comply with a federal judge’s order to remove video clips of former British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward testifying on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The judge indicated she may rescind the order.

The court had issued a pretrial order forbidding the publication of video or audio records of Hayward’s deposition without the court’s permission. -db

From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, July 8, 2011, by Derek Green.

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