Constitutional Law

Unclogging Wikileaks

Describing the action as a prior restraint on First Amendment free speech rights, media and public interest organizations petitioned San Francisco District Court Judge Jeffrey White to reverse his orders of last week that shut down the website Wikileaks. 

Wikileaks encourages users to upload leaked government and corporate documents, and was disabled after an ex parte proceeding in which a bank complained that a disgruntled former employee had uploaded documents that violated Swiss and Cayman Islands bank secrecy laws. One attorney likened the permanent injunction to "shut[ting] down a newspaper because of controversy over one article."

Full post as published by ACS Blog on March 02, 2008 (boomark / email).