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HARTFORD The state Supreme Court will not weigh in on a dispute over whether the Connecticut Law Tribune should have been barred from publishing a story about a child protection case.

The state's highest court was asked for its opinion after Judge Stephen Frazzini on Nov. 24 granted a motion filed in New Britain Superior Court by the mother of the three children involved in the child protection case that sought to stop the Law Tribune from running the story. Frazzini later lifted the ruling in December, saying the order no longer made sense because information about the case had already been published by other media outlets. Thursday, the court dismissed an appeal of the ruling, saying the case has become moot.

Daniel J. Klau, the lawyer representing the Law Tribune, objected to the mother's motion, saying a prior restraint on the publication was a violation of the First Amendment. The information for the story, he said, was lawfully obtained by the Law Tribune. Klau appealed the ruling, asking the state's appellate court to stay the lower court's injunction. The state Supreme Court then transferred the appeal to itself.

Free-speech advocates slammed Frazzini's initial ruling as unconstitutional and said they were not surprised when he reversed it. They still wanted the issue, however, to go before the state Supreme Court so it could clarify the state and federal rules on prior restraint. Those who argue that privacy issues in child protection cases trump First Amendment rights, however, praised Frazzini's initial ruling.

Klau said Thursday that while he was disappointed with the Supreme Court's decision not to hear his appeal, he said it was "important to recognize why" the court reached its decision.

"The trial court vacated its own injunction after the Law Tribune and over 100 amici [including legal experts, individuals and organizations] filed appellate briefs that explained why the trial court's prior restraint order was blatantly unconstitutional," Klau said. The Law Tribune's appeal was supported by a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, two open-government organizations, three media organizations and more than a dozen media outlets, including the Hartford Courant.

"Moreover, the Supreme Court acknowledged in its decision that the First Amendment issue presented was one of 'significant public importance,' and it described the trial court's original decision as 'devoid of precedential value.'"

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Published: Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 11:08 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 11:08 p.m.

Hoggard junior wins oratorical contest

WILMINGTON | American Legion Post 543 recently hosted the 9th District Constitutional Speech Oratorical Contest, and Caroline Bunting a junior at Hoggard High School was honored at St. James Community Center as winner.

Buntings topic was Utilizing Our First Amendment Rights. Her speech outlined the lives of famous Americans as they exercised what they saw as their duty to seek constitutional changes, and the civil rights changes that resulted. A central focus of her oratory was the right to vote.

The contest was open to American Legion Post contest winners from Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, and Pender counties. Bunting represented Post 10 in Wilmington.

WILMINGTON | The second annual First 2,000 Days Summit is 10 a.m.-noon, Monday, Feb. 16, at First Baptist Activity Center, 1939 Independence Blvd.

The free event organized by local faith leaders highlights the effects that toxic stress has on the developing brain especially during the first 2,000 days of life. The Cape Fear Memorial Foundation provides support for this event, which includes a light breakfast for attendees.

Pediatrician Dr. David Tayloe is the keynote speaker. Following his address, he is joined in a panel discussion by a therapist who works with young children who have experienced toxic stress, a pastor of a church that has made significant investments in early childhood, child-care providers, District Attorney Ben David and others.

There are only 2,000 days between the time a baby is born and when that child shows up for the first day of kindergarten. Experiences during these 2,000 days have a lasting impact on later learning, health and success.

The public is welcome to attend.

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Two hundred and twenty-eight years ago, Virginia successfully enacted legal protections for religious minorities, establishing the precursor to the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Read More

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Something more than fires and rage has been sparked in the streets of Ferguson. The First Amendment, like the city, is now a rallying cry and a hashtag for protesters exercising their rights to peaceably assemble and to petition the government. Read More

On Dec. 6, 1884, after 36 years of delays and interruptions caused by politics, a lack of funds and the Civil War, the Washington Monument in the nations capital was finally completed. Read More

A bipartisan list of politicians, media stars and special guests gathered at the Newseum Nov. 17 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of CBS Newss long-running Sunday news program, Face the Nation. Read More

On Nov. 17, 1734, before there was a First Amendment, newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger became a free-press hero when he was jailed for printing truthful articles in his New-York Weekly Journal accusing British Colonial governor William Cosby of being corrupt. Read More

On Nov. 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, one of the worlds first female reporters and the New York Worlds intrepid stunt girl, embarked on an ambitious mission to circle the globe in less time than Phileas Fogg, the hero of Jules Vernes novel Around the World in Eighty Days. It was her latest attempt to dazzle readers and keep Joseph Pulitzers No. 1 daily on top of the newspaper world. Read More

On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. East German authorities opened the border between East and West Berlin and the door to the fall of tyranny. The wall went up in the early morning darkness of Aug. 13, 1961, to keep millions of people from fleeing communist East Germany after World War II. It fell as suddenly as it had been built. Read More

Going viral might seem like a modern, Internet-era concept, but Orson Welles and CBS Radio mastered it 76 years ago this week. Read More

Presses passes held in a hand or slung around the neck give journalists front-row seats at the events that shape our times. The events end, but the press passes remain, like Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlees press pass from 1972. Read More

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