Injunction Against Publicly Identifying Pseudonymous Litigants Is Content-Based Prior Restraint,
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Today's decision by Fourth Circuit Judge Julius Richardson, joined by Chief Judge Albert Diaz, in Doe v. Mast involved a gag order on defendants: The order barred the defendants from "disclosing any information that directly or indirectly identifies Plaintiffs or their family members to any person … unless that person first executes a non-disclosure agreement."
The court ultimately upheld the order, because of national security concerns that are only very rarely present in such pseudonymo
The court ultimately upheld the order, because of national security concerns that are only very rarely present in such pseudonymo
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