By Tony Mauro, Special to First Amendment Center Online
WASHINGTON � It looks like famed lawyer Johnnie Cochran won’t be ridding himself of his personal nemesis anytime soon.
The Supreme Court appeared roundly unsympathetic yesterday [Tuesday 3/22] as a lawyer for Cochran tried to defend an injunction issued by a California judge against Ulysses Tory, a disgruntled former client who picketed outside Cochran’s Los Angeles office with signs describing him as a liar, cheat and worse.
The injunction bars Tory, along with his agents and representatives, from picketing or even speaking about Cochran in any public forum, apparently forever. A California appeals court upheld the injunction and Tory, backed by numerous press and free-speech organizations, asked the Supreme Court to strike it down in Tory v. Cochran.
Details here from the First Amendment Center.
By Tony Mauro, Special to First Amendment Center Online
WASHINGTON � It looks like famed lawyer Johnnie Cochran won’t be ridding himself of his personal nemesis anytime soon.
The Supreme Court appeared roundly unsympathetic yesterday [Tuesday 3/22] as a lawyer for Cochran tried to defend an injunction issued by a California judge against Ulysses Tory, a disgruntled former client who picketed outside Cochran’s Los Angeles office with signs describing him as a liar, cheat and worse.
The injunction bars Tory, along with his agents and representatives, from picketing or even speaking about Cochran in any public forum, apparently forever. A California appeals court upheld the injunction and Tory, backed by numerous press and free-speech organizations, asked the Supreme Court to strike it down in Tory v. Cochran.
Details here from the First Amendment Center.
By Tony Mauro, Special to First Amendment Center Online
WASHINGTON � It looks like famed lawyer Johnnie Cochran won’t be ridding himself of his personal nemesis anytime soon.
The Supreme Court appeared roundly unsympathetic yesterday [Tuesday 3/22] as a lawyer for Cochran tried to defend an injunction issued by a California judge against Ulysses Tory, a disgruntled former client who picketed outside Cochran’s Los Angeles office with signs describing him as a liar, cheat and worse.
The injunction bars Tory, along with his agents and representatives, from picketing or even speaking about Cochran in any public forum, apparently forever. A California appeals court upheld the injunction and Tory, backed by numerous press and free-speech organizations, asked the Supreme Court to strike it down in Tory v. Cochran.
Details here from the First Amendment Center.
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