An Arkansas federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by an energy company to temporarily block the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette from publishing additional details from confidential documents, reports CNBC’s Dan Mangan.
Mangan reports, “The company, Entergy Arkansas, also had asked Judge Lee Rudofsky to order that the Democrat-Gazette remove from its website information in an article published on Monday about the documents.
“The judge said, ‘It would take a lot to get me to do a prior restraint,’ the News Times reported.
“The Freedom of the Press Foundation has noted that ‘The Supreme Court has made clear time and again that prior restraints’ — barring a media outlet from publishing certain stories — ‘can be justified in only the most extreme circumstances.'”
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