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Judge bars LA Times from publishing photos

FAC August 5, 2010

A judge took the unusual and possibly unconstitutional step of barring a Los Angeles Times photographer from publishing images she allowed him to snap at a hearing for a man charged with murdering a Hollywood family. News August 5, 2010 By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES— Lawyers for the Times planned to ask the judge to reconsider the order, which a press group argued amounted to prior restraint that violates the First Amendment right to

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Superior Court judge orders newspaper not to publish details of legal dispute

FAC July 27, 2010

Superior Court Judge took the rare step of ordering The National Law Journal not to publish information ahead of publication The Washington Post Blog/ Commentary July 26, 2010 By Mike Debonis What should have been a boring trade-paper article about a pomegranate-juice company’s legal-fee dispute got a whole lot, er, juicier last week. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff took the rare step of ordering a newspaper not to publish information ahead of publication — a so-called “prior restraint.”

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Student editors in Washington fight prior review

donal brown May 24, 2010

Although students in a Washington school district recently won a censorship ruling in federal court, they are still fighting their district’s media policy that permits the administration powers of prior review and prior restraint. -db Student Press Law Center May 20, 2010 By Josh Moore PUYALLUP, Wash. — Student editors at three Puyallup School District high schools are pointing to a recent case of censorship as proof they need a publications policy without prior review.

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New California student free press law aims to stop prior restraint of student publications in charter schools

donal brown January 14, 2010

The adviser of a high school newspaper in Orange County, California says a revised publication policy at the charter school, the Orange County High School of the Arts, is in conflict with a proposed state law inspired by alleged censorship problems at the school.-DB Student Press Law Center January 13, 2010 By Stefanie Dazio ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — The high school that inspired a new Senate bill ensuring student free press rights for charter schools

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Court rules CIA did not violate Valerie Plame’s rights

FAC November 23, 2009

The CIA did not violate Valerie Plame’s 1st Amendment rights the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City (2nd Cir.) has ruled. Including dates of service in her memoir including them in her memoir would still violate the secrecy agreement she signed when she joined the CIA. Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press New York · November 18, 2009 CIA legally censored ex-operative’s memoir, appeals court rules Kirk Davis The CIA did not

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