ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZZETTE v. Zimmerman

ROBERT L. Brown, Justice.

The petitioners, Arkansas stice. (“Democrat-Gazette”), Arkansas Press Association, Associated Press, KFSM-TV, Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, and Northwest Arkansas Times (collectively, “the media”), have petitioned this court for a writ of mandamus-directing respondent, who is Juvenile Judge Stacey Zimmerman, to revoke her gag order on the press entered on May 18, 2000. We agree with petitioners that the gag order is too broad, and because of its breadth, constitutes a prior restraint on the press. We grant a writ of certiorari and direct Judge Zimmerman to…