Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge James Herman has banned the press three times in two days from the criminal negligence trial of an oil pipeline company.
SANTA BARBARA -- A superior court judge has three times barred the press and public from hearings in the criminal negligence trial of Plains All American Pipeline.
Judge James Herman ordered all non-lawyers out of the courtroom twice on Monday, and also last Friday, when he told a journalist not to report on anything he had heard up until that point. The hearings the judge has banned the press from have lasted about 15 minutes each....
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