Categories: OLD Media Moves

Judge denies Idaho Business Review's stay request

An Idaho judge has denied a request for a stay of judgment in a lawsuit involving the Idaho Business Review and the Idaho Statesman and where legal notices should be published.

A short story in the Statesman noted, “That means the ruling will hold for now, but the Supreme Court will consider the Review’s appeal around Aug. 22.

“The Idaho Statesman, Idaho’s largest newspaper, sued the weekly business newspaper over its publication of certain legal notices. The Statesman argued that state law said the notices must be published in the newspaper with the largest circulation. Fourth District Judge Deborah Bail agreed in her May 18 ruling, saying the law’s reference to a ‘newspaper of general circulation’ meant the area’s paper with the largest circulation.

“The Review wants the Supreme Court to consider whether the requirement that certain legal advertising run in the paper with the largest paid circulation applies to government postings only — not nongovernment advertisers — and whether Bail’s May finding renders a portion of state law unconstitutional.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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