THE NEWS-JOURNAL CORP. v. FOXMAN

No. 90-3469.

939 F.2d 1499 (1991)

THE NEWS-JOURNAL CORPORATION, a Florida corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Honorable S. James FOXMAN, Circuit Judge, Seventh Judicial Circuit, State of Florida, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 30, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan D. Kaney, Jr., Cobb, Cole & Bell, Daytona Beach, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant.

Louis F. Hubener, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Legal Affairs, Tallahassee, Fla., for defendant-appellee.

Before JOHNSON and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and MERHIGE, Senior District Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

This case presents a newspaper's First Amendment challenge to a restrictive order entered by a state court regarding extrajudicial statements by trial participants prior to the commencement of a sensational criminal trial. Upon the newspaper's application for injunctive relief, the federal district court dismissed the action for lack of jurisdiction based on Younger abstention. On the particular facts of this case, we affirm the district...

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