Prior restraint

A federal appellate court ruled Monday that a Texas journalist had standing to challenge a lower court’s gag order in…

Ordering lawyers to comply with rules of professional conduct was a less restrictive alternative to issuing a gag order during…

A judicial order that a news organization redact material presented during open court is an unconstitutional prior restraint on publication,…

A Texas district judge unhappy about media coverage has loosened -- but not completely eliminated -- a court order that…

A Dallas judge found earlier this week that a plaintiff who tried to silence a blogger through a temporary injunction…

The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco (9th Cir.) reaffirmed a sweeping protection of speech earlier this week, denying…

The California Court of Appeal threw out a lower court's order prohibiting the Los Angeles Times from publishing photographs of…

A California state appellate court has ordered a judge to rescind her order banning a newspaper from publishing photographs taken…

Urging the D.C. Court of Appeals to overturn a prior restraint on publication of information from a publicly available court…

The Washington, D.C., judge who last week issued a prior restraint against The National Law Journal today withdrew that restraining…