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"Lawyers admonished against discussing Kent case"

"Lawyers admonished against discussing Kent case": Mary Flood of The Houston Chronicle provides a news update that begins, "The Florida judge who will oversee the criminal trial of U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent issued a gag order in the case to prevent public discussion by parties or court personnel that could interfere with the trial. Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson of Pensacola late Friday issued the order that also allows him to hold arguments and hearings in chambers and outside of the presence of the public and forbids courthouse personnel from relating information from those hearings to the public."

Perhaps it won't be long before news organizations are filing mandamus petitions asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to allow press access at those arguments and hearings.

Full post as published by How Appealing on September 08, 2008 (boomark / email).