Criminal law gag order

: to prevent from exercising freedom of speech or expression.
What is an example of a gagging order?
A gag order can also be made by an executive agency such as when President George Bush issued a gag order which forbade federally funded health clinics from giving out information about abortions, a gag order which President Bill Clinton rescinded on his first day in office, January 22, 1993..
A gag order can also be made by an executive agency such as when President George Bush issued a gag order which forbade federally funded health clinics from giving out information about abortions, a gag order which President Bill Clinton rescinded on his first day in office, January 22, 1993.

Formally known as a non-dissemination order, a gag order is a court-imposed restriction on what information during trial or preliminary proceedings can be released to the public and what those involved in the case can say about it.

Could a gag order taint Trump's case?

But since Trump's case is extremely well known, a gag order designed to ensure an impartial jury isn't tainted by news coverage would more or less be useless, UCLA First Amendment Law Professor Eugene Volokh told NPR. "This is not a case that could be kept quiet from the jury," Volokh said.

Do gag orders violate First Amendment rights?

Gag orders implicate the public’s and litigants’ First Amendment rights.
On the one hand, they threaten the public’s First Amendment’s right of access to the courtroom.
A courtroom is a presumptively open space.

Overview

A coalition of media organizations and the family of a murder victim came to an Idaho court on Friday with the same goal in mind: challenging a gag order.

What is a gag order in a court case?

What is a gag order.
A gag order is imposed by a judge to restrict what individuals involved in a case can and cannot discuss outside the courtroom.
Since gag orders restrict the right to free speech, they are only issued to control the flow of information to ensure a fair trial, according to Cornell Law.

What the gag order says

The arrest warrant and criminal affidavit for Kohberger were issued on December 29, 2022, and within a week the prosecution and defense jointly agreed to a gag order.

Will a gag order be sidelined for more than two weeks?

Sparring over the scope of the gag order in that case continued on Friday, with the judge issuing a written order declaring that lawyers in the case were also now covered by the directive.
The appeals court’s action makes it likely that the gag order will be sidelined for more than two weeks and perhaps longer.

The anti-gag statute is a little-known legal boundary in the long struggle in the United States between Executive Branch secrecy and the United States Congress and the public's right to know.
Since 1988, the statute has been an annual appropriations restriction drawing the line on Executive branch efforts to limit whistleblowing disclosures to information that is specifically identified in advance as classified.
The anti-gag statute requires a mandatory, specifically worded addendum on any nondisclosure policy, form or agreement to legally spend money to implement or enforce the gag order.