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A rare prior restraint on speech has turned up in an unlikely place -- a divorce case -- with a…

A rare prior restraint on speech has turned up in an unlikely place — a divorce case — with a Vermont judge ordering a husband to take down blog postings about his wife and their dissolving marriage. The husband called his postings a "fictionalized account of the marriage" according to a New York Times article, but the wife contended they are defamatory statements and the judge ordered the posts be removed pending a February hearing.

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