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Judge bars media from publishing on expelled student suing UNC system

Incident Details

Updated On: March 1, 2023
Date of Incident: February 22, 2023
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Targets: Media

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

Texas judge vacates order limiting murder trial coverage

Incident Details

Date of Incident: January 9, 2023
Location: Waco, Texas
Targets: KWTX, Media, Waco Tribune-Herald

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

Penn. journalist ordered to destroy, unpublish copies of leaked report

Incident Details

Date of Incident: December 15, 2022
Location: Exeter Township, Pennsylvania
Targets: Jerry Geleff (Jerry Geleff Media), The Exeter Examiner, The Exeter Underground

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

California journalists sued for 'hacking' city’s open Dropbox folder; barred from publishing

Incident Details

Updated On: May 12, 2021
Date of Incident: October 24, 2019
Location: Fullerton, California
Targets: Friends for Fullerton's Future

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

Judge orders ProPublica Illinois, other media, not to publish details of juvenile court case

Incident Details

Updated On: April 15, 2019
Date of Incident: March 14, 2019
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Targets: ProPublica Illinois

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

Illinois County judge orders watchdog publication not to publish school records released by lawyer

Incident Details

Date of Incident: February 4, 2019
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Targets: Better Government Association

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

California orders reporters not to write about sealed search warrant

Incident Details

Date of Incident: October 17, 2018
Location: Orange County, California

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

Judge orders LA Times not to publish descriptions of defendant in murder trial

Incident Details

Date of Incident: October 10, 2018
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Los Angeles Times

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

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