Will Whistle-Blower Site Stay Shuttered?
It goes without saying that folks at SPJ, including the Society's faithful Baker & Hostetler lawyer Laurie Babinski, are closely watching developments in the shuttering of Wikileaks, a site devoted to the publication of confidential records.
The First Amendment implications of such a sweeping injunction could be enormous.
NYTs reporters Adam Liptak and Brad Stone
wrote about last week's
permanent injunction on Tuesday.
My colleague Martha Neil at the
ABA Journal has a summary of the issue
here and a
previous summary, from when Wikileaks published a Guantanamo Bay prison manual.
Most media reports note that the Wikileaks injunction has accomplished little. Indeed, Internet savvy sympathizers quickly worked to post the information Wikileaks was slapped for publishing.
The federal judge who issued the injunction, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White of San Francisco, has scheduled a Feb. 29 hearing in the case.
Any thoughts on whether Judge White will have a change of heart by then?
Other coverage:
Bulletproof host keeps Wikileaks up (Web Host Industry News)
Wikileaks site has friend in Sweden (New York Times)
Close of Wikileaks website raises free speech concerns (Christian Science Monitor)