Ebby DeWayne Wade v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• deciding that state may not punish press for disclosing confidential judicial proceedings, in part because a “responsible press has always been regarded as the handmaiden of effective judicial administration”
• noting that the harms associated with dissemination of sensitive information “can be eliminated through careful internal procedures”
• finding that secrecy of a non-grand jury investigation into judicial misconduct was insufficiently compelling rationale for restriction on speech
• assuming that confidentiality of proceedings might be a “legitimate” interest, but finding that it did not constitute a compelling interest
• finding that publication of information regarding proceedings before judicial disciplinary board “lies near the core of the First Amendment”
• suggesting that Virginia might preserve the confidentiality of judicial disciplinary proceedings by punishing those who disclose the information, rather than third parties who publish the information

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).