Washington Website Owner Wins Free Speech Case
An AP newswire article by Donna Gordon Blankenship, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday a trial judge overreached his authority when he restricted a man from posting information on a Web site.More here.
Paul Trummel was jailed for more than three months in 2002 in his free-speech standoff with the judge over the Web site he used as a forum for attacking the Council House, a federally subsidized retirement home where he once lived.
Trummel posted the phone numbers and addresses of Council House staff, directors and residents — something that King County Superior Court Judge James Doerty characterized as harassment.
posted by Fergie @ 3/31/2006 07:14:00 AM
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