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Prior Restraint and Subsequent Punishment

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  1. Which situation describes prior restraint on expression?
  2. Which situation illustrates subsequent punishment rather than prior restraint?
  3. What presumption applies to governmental prior restraint of expression under Chavez v. Gonzales?
  4. A city requires newspapers to submit every editorial criticizing local officials for official approval before publicati…
  5. A statute authorizes a penalty for a completed publication, imposed only after a case is heard. An official argues that…
  6. A broadcast regulator tells licensed stations that airing a specified political report will trigger suspension of their…
  7. The government prohibits a forthcoming report on alleged electoral misconduct because officials fear it might embarrass…
  8. Distinguish prior restraint from subsequent punishment. Does identifying a sanction as subsequent punishment necessaril…
  9. A regulator threatens license suspension if a station airs a specified political report. The credible threat chills the…
  10. Officials seek to stop a forthcoming political news report solely because it might embarrass them and could hypothetica…
  11. In Chavez’s treatment of content-based governmental prior restraint, who must overcome the presumption against the rest…
  12. Does Chavez treat broadcast media as categorically outside the protection against unjustified content-based prior restr…