In Trafigura Case, The Guardian and Twitter Untie Gag Order – NYTimes.com

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Twitter and a Newspaper Untie a Gag Order

The editor of The Guardian in London, Alan Rusbridger, and other Twitter users worked around a gag order that protected Trafigura, the shipping company.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/technology/internet/19link.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Last month, a British judge ruled that material obtained by Guardian journalists about a multinational corporation had to be kept secret. Unlike other such injunctions, however, the “gag order” applied to the existence of the injunction itself. That is, The Guardian was forbidden to report that it had been gagged