On 5/5/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/5/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
It depends. One forum, or a few, absolutely not.
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On the other hand, if the names of the children were so damn famous they'd become news stories of their own, and there were hundreds of thousands of places including mainstream news you could find them, yes, absolutely, I would.
So you'd base your decision as to whether to put yourself in contempt of court on how many other people were in contempt of court?
-- Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com
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For one thing, there's no "contempt of court" here. No court has issued a gag order, unless I've missed something, so the analogy is not terribly applicable anyway.
As to the rest, yes, I would look at the reality of the situation. If the traffic on the freeway is going 10 miles over the speed limit, I'll flow with traffic, even though it's technically illegal, because under the circumstances that's the best and safest option. On the other hand, I would under no circumstances speed through a school zone. It depends on the reality of the circumstances, not just technical legality.
At this point, a court order to suppress the information would be roughly analogous to a court order for the world to quit spinning. Pandora's box on that has been open for a while now. And the fact remains, -no such order exists-. You can't be in contempt of court for defying a court order that's never been issued! If there were in fact some type of legitimate order out there from a court, I probably would look at this differently.