Appellate Practice
Jun. 15, 2004
Police Can't Keep Freelance Journalists Away, Panel Decides
LOS ANGELES - In what one advocate called a major victory for journalists and the press, a state appeals court has ruled that the California Highway Patrol cannot use a restraining order to keep a free-lance journalist away from its officers and accident or crime scenes.
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