SINDI v. EL-MOSLIMANY

No. 16-2347.

896 F.3d 1 (2018)

Hayat SINDI, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Samia EL-MOSLIMANY and Ann El-Moslimany, Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 11, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Kiernan , with whom Bonner Kiernan Trebach & Crociata, LLP was on brief, Boston, MA, for appellants.

Eugene Volokh, pro se, on brief for Eugene Volokh, amicus curiae.

David H. Rich , with whom Suzanne Elovecky and Todd & Weld LLP were on brief, Boston, MA, for appellee.

Before Barron, Selya and Stahl, Circuit Judges.


This case implicates a plethora of issues arising in the shadow of the First Amendment. Most notably, it requires us to address the power of a court to impose a prior restraint in the form of a permanent injunction forbidding the publication of words — words that the court believes have been used to defame the plaintiff...

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