In Gentile v. State Bar of Nevada, the court struck down Nevada’s limit on
attorney speech as too vague while upholding some restrictions on attorney
speech.

Sheppard v. Maxwell (1966), which involved a murder trial, epitomized how a
circus-like “media” trial can pit First Amendment freedom against the right
to a fair trial.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. District in U.S. v. Trump (No. 23-3190) upheld most parts of a gag order on former president Donald Trump in a criminal case in which he is charged with conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. The 68-page decision on Dec. 8, 2023, weighed Trump’s First Amendment-protected speech