FREEDOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. G040979.

167 Cal.App.4th 150 (2008)

FREEDOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ORANGE COUNTY, Respondent; NELSON GONZALEZ et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

As modified September 30, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis Wright Tremaine, Kelli L. Sager, Alonzo Wickers IV and Jeff Glasser for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Callahan & Blaine, Daniel J. Callahan, Javier H. van Oordt and Jill A. Thomas for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

THE COURT.*

A newspaper, petitioner Freedom Communications, Inc., doing business as The Orange County Register (The Register), seeks extraordinary relief from an order enjoining it from reporting on trial testimony in a case in which it is the defendant. As explained below, we find this order an impermissible prior restraint violative of both the...

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