Word: gag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number of people coming in here is ridiculous," he said. "They were buying stuff as a gag in the beginning, but now they're completely serious...
...Florida those pushy lawyers who hawk themselves on TV will have to amend their ways. As of Jan. 1, a new set of rules put a virtual gag on attorneys pushing their services on the tube. They are forbidden to use dramatic scenes, slogans, endorsements from clients, plugs from celebrities, moving pictures -- in short, just about anything of greater interest than a test pattern. To top it off, such commercials have to include a disclaimer warning potential customers that they shouldn't be picking attorneys through TV ads in the first place. The Florida Bar Association, which developed the rules...
...move by attorneys for the Pi Eta Speakers Club came just weeks after a Massachusetts Appeals Court judge overturned a gag order which prevented the woman or her lawyers from discussing the case with the press or public...
...fight costly legal battles to protect her constitutional rights when there is no basis for the defendants to seek to violate them," the two argued. The lawyers also criticized the club for presenting some of the same newspaper clippings which were held to be an insufficient basis for the gag order...
...first time lawyers recall the court's allowing a "prior restraint" order to block a news organization from publishing or broadcasting news. In almost all earlier cases, the Supreme Court has equated prior restraints with censorship and declared them unconstitutional. "Now we have the government supporting a gag order on material the government gathered," said Jane Kirtley, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "It's frightening." Warned CNN's counsel Floyd Abrams: "The risk of this decision is that courts will order more brief prior restraints. From a journalism perspective, even...