{"id":39241,"date":"2009-11-10T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091110\/0116396866.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-10T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:35:00","slug":"judge-says-no-twittering-from-the-courtroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39241","title":{"rendered":"Judge Says No Twittering From The Courtroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many debates over whether or not it&#8217;s appropriate to blog or Twitter from the courtroom &#8212; in fact, just last week I attended a short conference at the US courthouse in San Francisco about how the court system is dealing with such things.  While you might understand why it&#8217;s barred for jury members or participants in the trial to use such things, it does seem a bit excessive for a judge <a href=\"http:\/\/legalblogwatch.typepad.com\/legal_blog_watch\/2009\/11\/twitter-from-the-courtroom-not-in-the-middle-district-of-georgia.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" >to bar reporters from Twittering as well<\/a>, but that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happened.  The judge ruled that it was a form of a &#8220;broadcast,&#8221; which is prohibited (why broadcasts are prohibited is a separate topic for a separate day, though it doesn&#8217;t really make any sense).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091110\/0116396866.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091110\/0116396866.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091110\/0116396866&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=5fe040f10de4637a43e715f1a90b07cc&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=5fe040f10de4637a43e715f1a90b07cc&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=sJ-aQZGAEsQ:d8IjCsAqEDg:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=sJ-aQZGAEsQ:d8IjCsAqEDg:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=sJ-aQZGAEsQ:d8IjCsAqEDg:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/sJ-aQZGAEsQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many debates over whether or not it&#8217;s appropriate to blog or Twitter from the courtroom &#8212; in fact, just last week I attended a short conference at the US courthouse in San Francisco about how the court system is dealing with such things. While you might understand why it&#8217;s barred for jury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}