Per Curiam.
In this action, the Post challenges the constitutionality of the trial judge's post-verdict order that "[n]o one is to talk to the jurors about the case, and the jurors aren't to talk to anybody about it." We conclude that, while a more narrowly focused order might have been constitutional, this one violates the First Amendment.
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Federal courts have struck down similar post-verdict orders on First Amendment grounds. Such a case...
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