A New York judge on Tuesday extended a law barring the New York Times from publishing some material on the Project Veritas, conservative activist group, a condition the newspaper said violated First Amendment protections.
Judge Charles Wood of the Westchester County Supreme Court said his temporary ban on November 18 would continue at least until December 1, deadline for Project Veritas to respond by writing countering Times’ request for termination.
After a 1-3/4-hour hearing in White Plains, the judge granted the extension which was originally a part of the defamation lawsuit filed against the Times last year by Project Veritas, reported Reuters.
Project Veritas, led by James O’Keefe, uses undercover tactics to expose what it describes as liberal biased media.
They have objected to a Times’ article published on November 11 that drew from Project Veritas lawyer and alleged to shed light on how the group worked with its lawyers to “gauge how far its deceptive reporting practices can go before running afoul of federal laws.”
Wood said that as the trial began, the case involved a conflict between the “bedrock principles” of the law: “freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and attorney-client privilege.”
Neither the Times nor Project Veritas took time to comment on the topic.
This was not Project Veritas’ first run in with the Times. An article published on September of 2020 was also sued prior by Project Veritas. The article described a video the group released that tainted the campaign of U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar alleging voter fraud over the Minnesota Democrat’s campaign.
Dean Baquet, editor-in-chief of the Times, said the ban on publishing was unconstitutional and set a “dangerous example.”
Joel Kurtzberg, a lawyer for The Times, told Wood that the long-term ban in Project Veritas case could have far-reaching, negative consequences for journalists.
“What Project Veritas is seeking here is not about the continued use of information within this litigation, but limiting what journalists report and do outside this litigation,” Kurtzberg said.
Libby Locke, a lawyer for Project Veritas, countered that the Times’ use of the memos “compromises the uninhibited, robust communication between a client and lawyer.”
Project Veritas is also undergoing a Department of Justice investigation of its possible role in the theft of a diary of President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley, whose pages are published in the National File, a right leaning website.
The Times has not faced any restraint since 1971, when Nixon government tried to block the publication of the Pentagon Papers revealing US military involvement in Vietnam.
Last month, as GreatGameIndia reported the New York Times was been caught again peddling fake news of children being hospitalized by COVID-19.
Meanwhile, Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. has slapped a $10 million lawsuit against the New York Times for a false and a damaging story on Coronavirus that was circulated throughout the Internet.
The NYT story was peddling the fake news that students returning from spring break became infected with the coronavirus because the school stayed open.
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