Journalists, publishers, civil libertarians win reversal for Wikileaks
Stunning victory for civil
liberties.
We posted about this case, last
week. The judge’s reversal is unprecedented - as was the
massive, all-inclusive response to the original
decision.
US District Court Judge Jeffrey White did a U-turn on his own earlier order in San Francisco on Friday, reversing suppression of the whistleblower website Wikileaks…
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a motion protesting the censorship of Wikileaks, and The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) assembled a media coalition that filed a friend of the court brief on Wikileaks’ behalf.
The media coalition comprised almost all of the major US newspaper publishers and press organisations, including — in addition to the RCFP — the American Society of Newspaper Editors, The Associated Press, the Citizen Media Law Project, The E.W. Scripps Company, the Gannett Company, The Hearst Corporation, the Los Angeles Times, the National Newspaper Association, the Newspaper Association of America, The Radio-Television News Directors Association, and The Society of Professional Journalists…
Faced with such concerted and well founded opposition from the press, Judge White not only dissolved the injunction requiring Dynadot to suppress Wikileaks’ DNS entries but also denied the plaintiff’s request for an order prohibiting the website’s publication.
The article clearly defines the constitutional reasons for overturn. Well done, folks.
US District Court Judge Jeffrey White did a U-turn on his own earlier order in San Francisco on Friday, reversing suppression of the whistleblower website Wikileaks…
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a motion protesting the censorship of Wikileaks, and The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) assembled a media coalition that filed a friend of the court brief on Wikileaks’ behalf.
The media coalition comprised almost all of the major US newspaper publishers and press organisations, including — in addition to the RCFP — the American Society of Newspaper Editors, The Associated Press, the Citizen Media Law Project, The E.W. Scripps Company, the Gannett Company, The Hearst Corporation, the Los Angeles Times, the National Newspaper Association, the Newspaper Association of America, The Radio-Television News Directors Association, and The Society of Professional Journalists…
Faced with such concerted and well founded opposition from the press, Judge White not only dissolved the injunction requiring Dynadot to suppress Wikileaks’ DNS entries but also denied the plaintiff’s request for an order prohibiting the website’s publication.
The article clearly defines the constitutional reasons for overturn. Well done, folks.
Posted: Sat - March 1, 2008 at 02:49 PM