After initially halting a planned news story concerning a witness in the Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating trial at the request of prosecutors, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter reversed himself Monday morning and lifted an injunction he’d put in place Friday afternoon.
According to attorneys who’d challenged the injunction, Baxter said he’d spent the weekend reviewing a brief detailing the high hurdles such an order must overcome to avoid running afoul of constitutional strictures barring prior restraint of truthful, legally obtained information under all but the most extraordinary circumstances.
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