Legal Opinion
In Re Hearst Newspapers Partnership, L.P.
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided October 30, 2007No. 01-07-00866-CVPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ELSA ALCALA, Justice.
By petition for writ of mandamus, rela-tors, Hearst Newspapers Partnership, L.P. (“Hearst News”) and Galveston County Daily News, challenge the trial court’s 1 order prohibiting discharged jurors from speaking to the press, media, or others about the evidence and what their votes would have been after the trial ended in a settlement. The relators contend the order is an unconstitutional prior restraint on their right to gather news under both the Texas Constitution and the First Amendment. We conditionally grant the petition for writ of mandamus.
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