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ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK, INC. v. LAPPIN

No. TH01-0076-C-T/H.

134 F.Supp.2d 1002 (2001)

ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK, INC., Plaintiff, Liveontheweb.com, Inc., a Florida Corporation, Intervening Plaintiff, v. Harley LAPPIN, in his official capacity as Warden of the United States Penitentiary Terre Haute; Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, in her official capacity as Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons; and John Ashcroft, in his official capacity as the United States Attorney General, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Indiana, Terre Haute Division.

April 18, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Derek A. Newman, Newman & Newman, Seattle, WA, Stephen L. Trueblood, Trublood Bitterman Lewis & Rodway, Terre Haute, IN, for Plaintiff.

Gerald A. Coraz, United States Attorney's Office, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants.

ENTRY FOLLOWING TRIAL

TINDER, District Judge.

I. Introduction

A. Summary

The relief sought in this case is the logical extension of Marshall McLuhan's prophetic proposal from the 1960s that the "medium is the message." Federal regulations guarantee that representatives of the media are entitled to observe a federal execution in the same manner as other citizen witnesses. No restrictions whatsoever are placed on how the media representatives...

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