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...pervaded the Court's attitude for most of this century. The American judicial system has long recognized prior restraint of speech as antithetical to the principles of democracy. But a decision last week proved a dangerous departure from that tradition. By refusing to strike down a ban on broadcast of the so-called Noriega tapes, the Court gave encouragement to those would seek further regulation of the press...
...broadcast would directly violate Noriega's rights. Any release of confidential client-lawyer information would be automatic cause for a mistrial. This makes CNN's wish to air the tapes more than just a desire to inform the public of governmental wrongdoing...
...looking for scratchy recordings of Noriega's conversations in Spanish that CNN had revealed were in its possession. When Hoeveler issued an injunction forbidding broadcast of the recordings, CNN, which had previously disseminated parts of several tapes, still went ahead to air one purporting to ^ contain Noriega's talks with attorneys. After the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld Hoeveler's prohibition, the network appealed to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. He referred the matter to the full nine-member bench, which at week's end was considering an emergency CNN petition to rescind...
...court is expected to hand down a ruling on the injunction this week. It has never upheld the issuance of a prior restraint on the publication or broadcast of news, considering it, in a 1976 decision, to be the "most serious and least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights...
...Presidency of Islamic Research, Ruling, Call and Guidance, an organization that rules on questions of dogma. Ibn Baz earned a certain notoriety in the 1960s by insisting that the sun revolved around the earth. He subsequently modified that view after a Saudi astronaut flew in a space shuttle and broadcast back TV images providing evidence to the contrary...