Sentences with phrase «gag order»

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

Scientists at the nuclear laboratories are «beside themselves» over the continuing gag order, says one official.

Once signed by the president, this law will prevent gag orders in consumer contracts nationwide, and lawyers can focus on providing great service rather than trying to censor their clients.

The FBI also has the authority to impose gag orders on NSL recipients, prohibiting them from disclosing that the government sought or obtained information from them.

The Federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that gag orders issued with warrant - like national security letters do not violate the First Amendment.

Related: Threat Level — Wired Blogs: Librarians Describe Life Under an FBI Gag Order by Luke O'Brien (June 24, 2007)

Jim Garland and Alex Berengaut are quoted by The Litigation Daily in an article regarding the role Covington and co-counsel Davis Wright played together on behalf of Microsoft that led to a groundbreaking policy memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein curbing the government's use of gag orders on tech companies.

Climate Policy Analyst Last week, the Trump Administration's sustained attack on federal scientists studying climate change science and impacts escalated when US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt issued last - minute gag orders preventing several... Continue reading →

(Wind farm opponents explain this by saying that they are under gag orders on the contracts that they signed.

Since Budenholzer is tied to the Hawks there is a non-stated gag order as to talking about the inner - working of the Hawks front office.

She specialises in obtaining urgent injunctive relief, including gagging orders, freezing injunctions and search and seizure orders.

Recently I have been hearing a lot about gag orders given by the United States, such as Lavabit, etc..

Reports have indicated that Trump's administration almost immediately set about putting gag orders on several government departments upon taking power, barring them from releasing information to the public and to the press.

They have refused to publicly disclose the chemicals that are used in fracking, won gag orders in legal cases and restricted the ability of scientists to get close to their work sites.

John P. Galligan represents Fort Hood, Texas, shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan, and he started this blog in response to a partial gag order forbidding him from inadvertently or purposefully «divulging, publishing or revealing, either by word or conduct,» information from the evidence.

Microsoft's recent lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department that fights against gag orders for secret government data requests has the support of many companies, including from rivals like Apple and Google.

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The Patriot Act, an FBI gag order and a Connecticut library:

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in New York said the FBI's use of secret «national security letters» to demand such data violates the First Amendment and constitutional provisions on the separation of powers, because the FBI can impose indefinite gag orders on the companies and the courts have little opportunity to review the letters.

If the canary is removed in the next transparency report, it is safe for users to assume that a Section 215 data request and the accompanying gag order has been issued.

Gag orders allow certain businesses that may not provide satisfactory services to compete well against businesses that do by «[painting] a false picture of themselves by suppressing truthful criticisms.»

In 2004, the ACLU challenged the government's ability to silence recipients of NSLs using gag orders.

The resulting uproar followed similar backlash over real blackouts at other federal agencies, resulting from a Trump administration gag order on their distribution of climate change information.

Life - long gag orders for lawyers, bureaucrats dealing with sensitive national security information, Toronto Star

The auditing agency, established by Congress and known as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, revealed the new gag order in its latest three - month assessment of conditions in Afghanistan.

The juror is suing to have their lifetime gag order lifted, which would permit jurors to discuss the facts of the case of the shooting death of Mike Brown by former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.

6) I was not aware of the Johnson gag order until you pointed it out... I had always been told that this was because of separation of church and state and this predated the Johnson thing.

6) I was not aware of the Johnson gag order until you pointed it out.

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.

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

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

Last week, the Trump Administration's sustained attack on federal scientists studying climate change science and impacts escalated when US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt issued last - minute gag orders preventing several EPA research staff from giving planned presentations at a workshop about the overall health of the Narragansett Bay.

Along with CREDO's case, EFF is litigating two other challenges to NSL gag orders on behalf of communications providers who are still gagged.

On the most obvious level, these scenes express the character's extreme isolation; he has thrown away his livelihood and lost his marriage, has been bombarded with legal gag orders and anonymous death threats and may be abandoned by the network that coaxed him to talk in the first place.

In a briefing at the White House on Tuesday, press secretary Sean Spicer was asked by reporters about whether a social - media gag order had been placed on the Interior Department.

If signed into law, it will cancel out any existing gag orders, and the Federal Trade Commission will be able to take action against businesses that do attempt to use them.

about Whistleblower Coalition Urges Office of Special Counsel to Investigate Justice Department amid Gag Order Trend

I hate gag orders both real and implied.

Guilty people pay off their accusers and then slap gag orders on them so that they'll never talk again.

Nationals senator John Williams has reiterated to The Australian Financial Review if Hayne doesn't come good on Monday and ask all financial institutions to waiver gag orders, he will make a speech in the chamber on Wednesday and push for a Senate inquiry to run in parallel with the royal commission.

Some Claim Gag Order Placed on «NY SAFE» Criticism added by dskriloff on May 23, 2013 View all posts by dskriloff →

Contractual gagging orders are being imposed on charities engaged in the government's flagship work programme initiative, the Independence Panel's report out today warns.

A MoD spokesman said the new guidelines were an attempt to update the guidelines rather than impose a far - reaching gagging order.

The phrase gag order is slang, not a judicial term, so you can't easily find this definition on a court website.

In a highly publicized case last year, a lifelong gag order was imposed on two children who were parties to a legal case that accused one gas company of unsafe fracking operations that caused them to fall sick.

Multiple Twitter accounts claiming to be run by members of the National Park Service and other U.S. agencies have appeared since the Trump administration's apparent gag order.