💬 Opinion 7h ago · Eugene Volokh

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

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