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Family,
Civil Rights,
California Courts of Appeal

Mar. 1, 2019

LA judge’s restraint on lawyer’s free speech reversed

A state appellate panel has reversed on First Amendment grounds part of a domestic violence restraining order by a Los Angeles judge who ordered that prevented an Encino lawyer from posting anything about his divorce on Facebook.

LA judge’s restraint on lawyer’s free speech reversed
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Amy Pellman

A state appellate panel has reversed on First Amendment grounds part of a domestic violence restraining order by a Los Angeles County judge that prevented an Encino lawyer from posting anything about his divorce on Facebook.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Amy M. Pellman's order prohibiting lawyer Michael M. Molinaro from commenting about his divorce online "i...

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