The judge’s order against The Clarksdale Press Register in Clarksdale, Miss., had alarmed press advocates, who said it was a violation of the First Amendment.
The City of Clarksdale agreed to drop its lawsuit against the Clarksdale Press Register after successfully forcing them to take down an editorial last week.
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A Mississippi judge on Wednesday vacated her order that a newspaper remove its editorial criticizing local officials, days after a city decided to drop the lawsuit that spurred it. The judge's order had been widely condemned by free speech advocates as a clear violation of the paper's First Amendment rights.
Columnist Sid Salter takes a look at the players in the Clarksdale-Emmerich newspaper case ahead of the February 27 hearing.
By Sid Salter Columnist Hinds County Chancellor Crystal Wise Martin kicked a political and judicial hornet’s nest in issuing a Feb. 18 temporary restraining order that required a Mississippi newspaper to remove a Feb.
The city's actions this month "awakened the entire First Amendment community nationally," the paper's owner said.
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A Mississippi judge ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing the mayor and city leaders after the officials sued, sparking complaints from press advocates that it violates the First Amendment.
A Mississippi judge issued a Tuesday order forcing the Clarksdale Press Register to remove an editorial criticizing city officials, sparking First Amendment concerns and pushback from press
The 2,672-bed facility already houses Mississippi inmates and some pretrial detainees, out-of-state inmates including those from Vermont and South Carolina and U.S. Marshals Service detainees, which includes immigration detainees.
The judge’s order had been widely condemned by free speech advocates as a clear violation of the paper’s First Amendment rights.
Clarksdale is about 71 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. The order drew complaints from press advocates in Mississippi and nationwide. “This is a rather astounding order and we feel it is egreg ...
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