United States v. Quattrone

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a “‘prior restraint’ on speech is a law, regulation or judicial order that suppresses speech—or provides for its suppression at the discretion of government officials—on the basis of the speech’s content and in advance of its actual expression”
• explaining that appeal 15 must be dismissed as moot “if an event occurs during the course of the proceedings or on appeal 16 that makes it impossible for the court to grant any effectual relief whatever to a prevailing party” 17 (internal quotation marks omitted)
• defining a prior restraint as a “judicial order that suppresses speech—or provides for its suppression at the discretion of 14 government officials—on the basis of the speech’s content and in advance of its actual expression”
• “A prior restraint is not constitutionally inoffensive merely because it is temporary.”
• “A prior restraint is not constitutionally inoffensive merely because it is temporary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).