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Article: The McGraw-Hill Companies and Business Week win first amendment appeal; sixth circuit issues landmark ruling on Prior restraint.
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- March 5, 1996
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MARCH 5, 1996--BUSINESS WEEK magazine's First Amendment fight ended in a major victory today when the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a landmark ruling, reaffirmed a "bedrock First Amendment principle" that the press shall not be subjected to prior restraint. The decision, issued today in Cincinnati, followed a six-month battle that took BUSINESS WEEK and its parent, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., all the way to the Supreme Court.
Finding that the prior restraint against BUSINESS WEEK was "patently invalid and should never have been entered," the Sixth Circuit ruled that:
"...At no time...did the District Court appear to ...