Legal Opinion
Entertainment Network, Inc. v. Lappin
District Court, S.D. Indiana
Decided April 18, 2001No. TH01-0076-C-T/HPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENTRY FOLLOWING TRIAL
TINDER, District Judge.
I. Introduction
A. Summary
The relief sought in this case is the logical extension of Marshall McLuhan’s prophetic proposal from the 1960s that the “medium is the message.” Federal regulations guarantee that representatives of the media are entitled to observe a federal execution in the same manner as other citizen witnesses. No restrictions whatsoever are placed on how the media representatives report on what they observe. But that is not enough for the Plaintiff and the Intervening Plaintiff-they seek not just to view the execution — they seek to…
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- Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Hewitt v. HelmsSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Ward v. Rock Against RacismSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Reverend Larry Rice Reverend Raymond Redlich New Life Evangelistic Center, Inc. v. Gary Kempker State of Missouri George Lombardi Don RoperCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2004
- United States v. SampsonDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2004
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