Capital Cities Media, Inc. v. Toole

OPINION

NIX, Chief Justice.

This opinion is filed in response to an order of the United States Supreme Court vacating an order of this Court and remanding for clarification of the record. The question to be addressed is the basis of our denial of an application for writ of prohibition, filed on behalf of a newspaper and a television station involved in the coverage of a criminal trial, challenging the constitutionality of certain restrictive orders issued by the trial court.

I

This controversy arose shortly before the commencement of trial in the case of Commonwealth v. George E. Banks in the…