Lawyers for the Connecticut Law Tribune and a divorcing mother seeking to prevent the newspaper from publishing an article about her custody fight filed briefs on Wednesday, Dec. 10, urging the Connecticut Supreme Court to hear a case that could guide judges, attorneys and the media on privacy and free press issues in today’s Internet age.
The legal newspaper had been preparing an article on a habeas petition that was posted for a time on the Judicial Branch’s website when Hartford attorney Steven Dembo won a Nov. 24 emergency injunction ordering the paper not to print information from the custody case. Even though a judge lifted his injunction Dec. 3, Dembo argued that the rare prior restraint order was justified under the state’s juvenile privacy laws.
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