Article: Testing prior restraint; (Editora[euro][TM]s note: In Singapore politics is viewed as a test for young and brighter party members, especially those at age 40 down, as noted by the author.).(Romeo V. Pefianco)

Article: Prior Restraint
West's Encyclopedia of American Law;      700+ words ...PRIOR RESTRAINT Government prohibition of speech in advance ... U.S. Constitution is the freedom from prior restraint. Derived from English common law, the rule against prior restraint prohibits government from banning expression ...

Article: PRIOR Restraint.(Brief Article)
Cobblestone;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... This kind of preapproval is called prior restraint. It is a restriction on speech or ... government might make just such a prior restraint law. Many of those men had come from ... printed materials that worked like prior restraint. English church officials established ...

Article: State high court upholds prior restraint on ...
News Media and the Law;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... right to a fair trial and that the prior restraint was necessary to protect that right ... burden justifying the necessity of a prior restraint. In particular, the newspaper argued ... his right to a fair trial was the prior restraint. In late August, a 4-1 majority ...

Article: Informal court action can be prior restraint, ...
News Media and the Law;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... chill expression can constitute a prior restraint." Warnings from a court have even ... also bears on whether an order is a prior restraint. "A threat of prosecution or criminal ... Robert Mathis last summer constituted a prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment ...

Article: Prior restraint on publishing lawyer's time records ...
News Media and the Law;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Richard Baumgartner determined that a prior restraint was necessary to protect Huskey ... records. Baumgartner determined that a prior restraint was necessary to protect Huskey ... rights, Baumgartner determined that a prior restraint was necessary to protect Huskey ...

Encyclopedia entry: prior restraint
The Oxford Guide to the United States Government;      383 words ...prior restraint Prior restraint is a form of censorship in which government officials restrict ... guarantee of a free press precludes the government's use of prior restraint to control the content of a publication. This 1st Amendment ...

Article: COLUMN: Prior restraint tactics harm all
University Wire;  December 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... too distant cousin to a practice called prior restraint? The concept of prior restraint revolves around the fact that before something ... has ruled on more than one occasion that prior restraint is unconstitutional, according to the ...