A state court in Georgia has issued temporary restraining order, which forced the cancellation of a conference panel this past weekend. A company called Blackboard, which sells campus automation systems to colleges and universities, convinced the court to block the publication of embarrassing details about Blackboard products. The injunction is a prior restraint on speech, which prevented the defendants from speaking to an specific audience that had gathered to hear them in spite of any consideration of the First Amendment.
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