Bradburn v. NORTH CENT. REGIONAL LIBRARY

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “A prior restraint is an official restriction imposed on speech or another form of expression in advance of its occurrence.”
• \A prior restraint seeks to prohibit future speech rather than to punish speech that has occurred.\
• under the state abuse clause “no greater protection [than under the First Amendment] is afforded to obscenity, speech in nonpublic forums, commercial speech, and false or defamatory statements”
• under the state abuse clause “no greater protection [than under the First Amendment] is afforded to obscenity, speech in nonpublic forums, commercial speech, and false or defamatory statements”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).