People v. Daily Journal of Kankakee

The case poses the question of whether a newspaper which learns through ordinary reportorial techniques of the identity of a minor charged in a closed criminal proceeding may be forbidden from reporting that information once it has entered the public domain. We hold on the authority of Smith v. Daily Mail Publishing Co. (1979), 443 U.S. 97, 61 L. Ed. 2d 399, 99 S. Ct. 2667, that — at least in the absence of a serious and imminent threat to the minor’s welfare which cannot be obviated by some other, less speech-restrictive means — such an order contravenes the Federal and Illinois…