Nation Magazine v. United States Department of Defense

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• declining to exercise jurisdiction in the absence of a well-focused controversy, even though challenge to constitutionality of terminated pooling regulations was not moot
• plaintiffs’ claim to enjoin DOD from using pools was moot because pooling regulations at issue had been lifted
• “The historic competence of the federal judiciary to address questions of First Amendment freedoms and equal protection is clear.”
• “Regardless of whether the government is constitutionally required to open the battlefield to the press ... once it does so it is bound to do so in a non-discriminatory manner.”
• government must act in a non-discriminatory manner in regulating access to battlefield; in the context of a military operation, DOD may place “reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on the press upon showing that there is a significant governmental interest”

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