Las Vegas Review-Journal v. Eighth Judicial Dist. Court of Nev.

By the Court, PICKERING, J.:

The district court enjoined the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Associated Press from reporting on a redacted, anonymized autopsy report that they and other members of the media obtained through a Nevada Public Records Act request. The question presented is whether the district court's preliminary injunction order comports with the First Amendment. We hold that it does not. While we are deeply sympathetic to the decedent's family's privacy concerns, the First Amendment does not permit a court to enjoin the press from reporting on a redacted autopsy report already…