Prior restraint still prevails in Veritas New York Times case
A New York state appeals court stayed an order requiring The New York Times to relinquish or destroy copies of legal memos belonging to Project Veritas while also sustaining the ban on publishing the memos. Project Veritas is suing the Times for defamation. The Times was investigating the theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter and in the course of its investigation obtained legal memos strategies for keeping Project Veritas reporting tactics