CT Supreme Court Rejects Prior Restraint Case

The Connecticut Supreme Court has rejected a prior restraint case involving legal newspaper Connecticut Law Tribune, CLT's Thomas B. Scheffey reports. The court said the case had become legally moot because the trial judge retracted his order barring the Law Tribune from publishing a story with details from a juvenile court record. However, the newspaper appealed seeking "a ruling that this prior restraint violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and its counterparts in the Connecticut Constitution. The mother [of two children placed in foster care because of a rancorous divorce] sought a ruling that the confidentiality interests of the children trumped the constitutional free speech provisions," Scheffey reports.