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...Baton Rouge case, the Nixon Supreme Court majority allowed a Federal judge to cite reporters for contempt because they wrote about an open hearing...
...Supreme Court last month declined to hear an appeal of contempt citations against two Baton Rouge La., reporters, Larry Dickenson of the State Times and Gibbs Adams of the Morning Advocate. The Journalists' offence: they published accounts of an open federal court hearing in defiance of a court order. The Reporter's committee for freedom of the Press, a Washington-based group that offers legal aid to endangered colleagues, said last week that the high court's refusal to hear the case "means that any judge can order a newspaper not to publish any news items...
...later rapped West by declaring that "censorship in any form-judicial censorship include-is simply incompatible with the dictates of the constitution and the concepts of free press." It also described the conflict as a "civil libertarian's nightmare." Nevertheless, the appeals court refused to lift either the contempt citation or the fine. Reason: the court said that Dickinson and Adams should have obtained an injunction against West's order before publishing their stories. Because of the Supreme Court's refusal to intervene, that West's would be considered binding until an appeal could be processed...
...grand jury that had decided not to issue any indictments. An appeal is pending, and Times Editor Eugene Patterson is attempting to go to jail in his reporter's place. Patterson may get half his wish. The judge is considering whether the editor exposed himself to contempt charges when he ordered Mrs. Morgan not to name her source. "If I can't keep her out of jail now," Patterson said last week, "I'd at least like to go with...
...democratic socialists ardently hope that more students will begin to draw the lessons of the sixties. Instead, the current period of ritualistic "Leftism" (including the sixties' sickness of elitism, pro-Communism, contempt for working people, etc.) combined with cynicism is an indication that many people have remembered a lot from the heyday of the student movement, but learned nothing...