A judge granted a temporary restraining order against the Clarksdale Press Register on Tuesday on behalf of the City of Clarksdale, Mississippi over an editorial.
A Mississippi state judge ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing city officials from its website, a move that First Amendment experts say
The city of Clarksdale, Mississippi says a judge has granted a temporary restraining order against the local newspaper over an editorial that was critical of city government. The editorial, titled “Secrecy,
The city of Clarksdale, Mississippi says a judge has granted a temporary restraining order against the local newspaper over an editorial that was critical of city government. The
A Mississippi judge on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order requested by the City of Clarksdale requiring a local newspaper to remove a critical editorial from its website, a move
At Scioto Valley Guardian, Ohio’s leading news website, we stand unwaveringly for the freedom of the press—a cornerstone of democracy enshrined in the First Amendment. Today, we are reprinting an
The owner of The Clarksdale Press Register said he planned to challenge a judge’s order against an editorial that criticized city officials.
The feud between a Black mayor and a conservative newspaper spilled over onto the national stage when a Mississippi court ordered a critical editorial be taken down.
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.
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.
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.