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- Title
Control: Freedom and Censorship.
- Authors
Ferguson, Charles K.; Dowell, E. Foster
- Abstract
The Los Angeles Times contempt case, which has recently been filed for review before the U.S. Supreme Court, is of commanding interest to anyone concerned with legal adjudication or civil liberties. This case will force the highest tribunal to choose between two American rights that have heretofore been considered equally basic. The court by direct decision or by refusing to rehear the California decision, must indicate whether it believe "freedom of the press" subordinate to "independence of the judiciary" or vice versa. The case begun in July 1938 when contempt citations were brought in the name of Los Angeles Bas Association against the Los Angeles Times, a daily newspaper, based on five editorial commenting upon local court cases in the process of trial and two additional editorials discussing the action of the Bar Association in starting contempt proceedings. Four out of five editorials were charged "in contempt" because they were published after jury verdicts had been returned before the judge's final disposition of the cases by sentences or otherwise.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CENSORSHIP; CIVIL rights; FREEDOM of information; UNITED States. Supreme Court; NEWSPAPER laws; ADMINISTRATIVE procedure; COURTS
- Publication
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1940, Vol 4, Issue 2, p297
- ISSN
0033-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/265405