United States Fifth Circuit

Court orders that admonished against any attempt to circumvent or interfere with the anonymous jury order constituted a prior restraint because they gagged the press from reporting independently gathered stories based on facts obtained from sources other than confidential court records, court personnel or trial participants.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/01/2001
• Published 05/01/2001

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, JONES and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen A. Higginson, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Eddie J. Jordan, Jr., Salvador Robert Perricone, James B. Letten, New Orleans, LA, for United States., Camille F. Gravel, Jr., Alexandria, LA, William H. Jeffress, Jr., Baker Botts, Washington, DC, for Brown., Provino Charles Mosca, New Orleans, LA, for Sanders., J. Michael Small, Law Offices of J. Michael Small, Alexandria, LA, for Edwards., Donald Lynn Foret, Metairie, LA, for Bourgeois., James P. Linn, Linn & Neville, Oklahoma City, OK, Robert N. Habans, Jr., Habans & Carriere, Slidell, LA, for Disiere., Edward J. Castaing, Jr., Crull, Castaing, Lilly & Herman, New Orleans, LA, for Weems., James Richard Swanson (argued), Loretta Gallaher Mince, Correro, Fishman, Haygood, Phelps, Walmsley & Casteix, New Orleans, LA, for The Times-Picayune Publishing Corp. and Associated Press., Lloyd J. Lunceford (argued), Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, LA, for Capital City Press., Mary Ellen Roy (argued), David L. Patron, Sheryl A. Odems, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, LA, Michael D. Hunt, Jane H. Barney, Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, LA, for Hearst-Argyle Television Inc., David A. Woolridge, Jr., Roedel, Parsons, Koch, Frost, Balhoff & McCollister, Baton Rouge, LA, for The Louisiana Press Ass'n.