Jury Trials and First Amendment Values in Cyber World
John E. Nowak · bepress Legal Repository · 2000
Is THERE ANYTHING LEFT TO SAY?In the past half-century, I suspect, enough trees to constitute a small forest have been turned into paper simply for discussion of free speech and fair trial issues.I doubt that there is little new to say about how legislatures or courts should be dealing with the subject at the moment.The Supreme Court has been able to work out a series of positions that are at least "good enough for govermnent work" concerning subjects such as attorney speech regulations, closure of trials, courthouse picketing, and protective orders related to the discovery process.Of course, to maintain friendships with persons who planned and participated in the Allen Chair Symposium, I concede that there is great academic merit in the continuing debate regarding the Court's current positions on these issues.Nevertheless, I'm convinced that all persons who debate such issues in terms of 1990s technology are like the proverbial generals who devise military plans that are only good if they are going to fight the last war.