-- On 3 Aug 2001, at 9:48, Greg Broiles wrote:
Courts have relatively strong powers with respect to controlling the possession and disposition of physical things like notebooks or hard disks, but relatively weak powers with respect to limiting the dissemination of information not in the court's exclusive possession, so long as the disseminator is not a party to a case before the court, nor an attorney for a party.
This, folks, accurately summarizes the state of the law, as illustrated by numerous recent high profile cases, and any pompous pontificating fool who claims to be a lawyer and says something different, is full of shit. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG dSV6sI6yQ2/jieC4fpBN7te3dg/Ah5VH2uFW0sKW 4BMa39ojsj5zW2GHC0CbxCCaUmgmRViBZ3F2MHnvP