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The Guide to Live-Blogging and Tweeting From Court

By Bruce Carton

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These days, anyone with a phone and a Twitter account has all the tools they need to provide real-time coverage of court proceedings. The courts are now coming to grips with this reality, and are slowly issuing guidance and rules to govern those who might wish to "live-blog" or tweet from court. In fact, some courts have banned the practice altogether. As I wrote here, a federal court in Georgia ruled last month in United States v. Shelnutt (M.D. Ga. Nov. 2), that Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure prohibits ?tweeting? from the courtroom. The many interpretations and standing orders that are now emerging from courts around the country on this subject have created a confusing situation for would-be court tweeters, but yesterday things became a lot clearer thanks to the Citizen Media Law Project. On its blog, the CMLP announced yesterday that it has created and will now be maintaining a guide to live-blogging and tweeting from court. This new guide provides step-by-step guidelines to help people "avoid legal trouble if you intend to provide live coverage of court proceedings through Twitter, live-blogging or other social media tools." CMLP's suggestions include checking the appropriate court's local...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 11, 2009 (boomark / email).