Take That Back
A Florida judge has ordered The Palm Beach Post to remove from its website transcripts of telephone recordings in which a jailhouse informant bragged about his ability to get confessions from fellow inmates. The newspaper also had to remove two paragraphs from a story quoting the transcripts. Even though inmates are told their phone calls are being recorded, Judge Jack Schramm Cox held that printing the transcripts violated the snitch's privacy rights.
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Oh please, dear? For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.
It isn't prior restraint if they have it removed after the fact.
Legal Loophole, FTW! - Judge Cox
Jack Schramm Cox.
Print this asshole's name.