The city of Clarksdale on Monday filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss its lawsuit against the Clarksdale Press Register and a judge’s order that required the newspaper to remove an editorial from its ...

Hinds County, Mississippi, Chancery Court Judge Crystal Wise Martin ordered the Clarksdale Press Register to remove an ...

The judge’s order had been widely condemned by free speech advocates as a clear violation of the paper’s First Amendment ...

Columnist Sid Salter takes a look at the players in the Clarksdale-Emmerich newspaper case ahead of the February 27 hearing.

After a lawsuit from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the city backed down. But it's still part of a ...

I bore easily. I remember a summer job during my college years. I was doing clerical work for extra spending money. It was ...

Completely bonkers and unconstitutional,” not to mention “really shocking,” is how a lawyer with expertise on First Amendment press freedoms described to us an order by Judge Crystal Wise Martin ...

The city's actions this month "awakened the entire First Amendment community nationally," the paper's owner said.

By Sid Salter Columnist Hinds County Chancellor Crystal Wise Martin kicked a political and judicial hornet’s nest in issuing a Feb. 18 temporary restraining order that required a Mississippi newspaper ...

The City of Clarksdale agreed to drop its lawsuit against the Clarksdale Press Register after successfully forcing them to ...

A Mississippi judge this month issued an order for a local newspaper to remove a critical editorial, alarming press advocates ...