Sentences with phrase «court gag order»

Violating a court gag order is a contempt of court issue that would get you a few days in jail.

Not exact matches

Once the family broke the gag order and got some national coverage there was huge outcry from first amendment lawyers about the illegality of that order, and also others speaking out about having been legally gagged in court cases with big power differential.

That said, courts do issue illegal gag orders about different cases not uncommonly.

The gag order applies to attorneys and their staffs, potential witnesses, law enforcement officers and court employees.

saying that she should be cited for contempt of court for violating a gag order that was instituted last week

The judge in question, a Montgomery County surrogate (Amedore country) acting as a supreme court judge, issued the gag order almost a month ago before two higher courts issued rulings.

State Supreme Court Justice Frank Caruso, in a ruling filed Friday in the Niagara County Clerk's Office, imposed the gag order sought by lawyers for Kaleida and Perry.

A Russian woman who was accused of blackmailing disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is seeking to lift a court - mandated gag order so she can talk about what she says are Spitzer's fetishes.

A gag and protective order imposed by Solomon prevented him from discussing the matter further after the hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — New York state's top official on public information bemoaned a gag order preventing Onondaga Community College from disclosing the terms of a court settlement.

If they offer an out - of - court settlement, it might include a gag order to keep you quiet.

But for some one whose such a champion for freespeech why did he go to the high court to get a gagging order on it.

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, weighed in on the matter and called for Parliament to provide clearer guidance to the courts when awarding gagging orders.

Rare «gagging» orders were also granted by the Court so that the investigation and gathering of information could be pursued without Dame Shirley or other third parties knowing about it.

The township asserts that the author of daTruthSquad is none other than Moskovitz himself and that by writing the blog he has violated a gag order the court imposed on the parties to the case.

And if ever a court would be inclined to compel speech, it would be in a situation like this one, where a company intentionally set out to get around a gag order with this kind of convoluted sea - lawyering.

NSL recipients were also given the ability to challenge, in federal court, compliance with the NSL and the gag order provisions.

Companies are having some success in getting courts to lift gag orders.

After the court decision in Mr. Merrill's case, a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York denied gag orders in more than a dozen cases related to Facebook subpoenas last May.

Part of the gag order on Open Whisper Systems was lifted after a court challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union, and redacted versions of documents related to the information request were made public last week.

Technology companies contend that court - imposed gag orders are being used too often by law enforcement and that they violate the Bill of Rights.

And in June, Yahoo was successful in getting a court to lift gag orders on a number of law enforcement information requests.

Last week, EFF led a group of civil society organizations that included Access Now, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and New America's Open Technology Institute in filing a brief demanding that the court apply a stringent constitutional test before enforcing gag orders accompanying a number of secret search warrants.

Should the Family court be used to gag the family of a victim of paedophilia in order to hide child sex crimes?