1. What is prior restraint?
Censorship of information before it is published
2. In The Pentagon Papers Case, an employee
leaked secret government reports. It showed that government officials had lied
to the American public. The court ruled that stopping publication would be
prior restraint. In later rulings the court has indicated that even where
national security is not an issue protection against prior restraint is not
absolute.
3. the court allowed school officials to censor school
newspapers, plays, and other school-sponsored expressive activities
4. before an during a trial, news stories about said crime
makes it difficult to find a jury that will fairly decide the case. In order to
prevent press coverage from interfering, the court allowed moving the trial to
reduce pretrial publicity, limiting the umber of reporters in the courtroom,
placing controls on reporters’ conduct in the courtroom, isolating witnesses
and jurors from the press, and having the jury held in trial until the trial is
over.
5. a gag order is an order by a judge barring the press from
publishing certain types of information about a pending court case
6. the court ruled the first amendment does not give special
privileges to news reporters. Like other citizens, they must respond to
relevant questions put to them in the course of a valid grand jury
investigation or criminal trial
7. because they use public airwaves
8. the court has voided laws that ban advertising
prescription prices, legal services, and medical services. Society has the right to protection
from obscene speech, pictures, and written material.
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