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U.S. v. FORD

Nos. 87-5686, 87-5695.

830 F.2d 596 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Harold E. FORD, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

September 25, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Gill, U.S. Atty., Knoxville, Tenn., J. Laurens Tullock (argued), for plaintiff-appellee.

Janina Jaruzelski, Steven R. Ross (argued), Charles Tiefer, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., for amicus, Speaker and Leadership Group.

Vincent J. Fuller, Williams and Connolly, Washington, D.C., J. Alan Hanover, Hanover, Walsh, Jalenak, Blair, Memphis, Tenn., William F. McDaniels (argued), Washington, D.C., Vincent J. Fuller, Ellen Huvelle, for defendant-appellant.

Before MERRITT, KRUPANSKY and NELSON, Circuit Judges.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

In this federal criminal case for mail and bank fraud, set for trial on November 9, 1987, the defendant, Congressman Harold Ford of Memphis, seeks an interlocutory ruling setting aside as constitutionally invalid a broadly worded, so-called "gag" order entered sua sponte in the District Court. The order prohibits Congressman Ford from "making" any "extrajudicial statement that a reasonable person would expect to be disseminated by means...

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