Part one of term paper
- A judge's order prohibiting the attorneys and the parties to a pending lawsuit or criminal prosecution from talking to the media or the public about the case. The supposed intent is to prevent prejudice due to pre-trial publicity which would influence potential jurors. A has the secondary purpose of preventing the lawyers from trying the ...

Part two of term paper
... put a gag on the participants under the court's control. In Canada, however, the media can be restricted, as in a famous case in which American newspapers were smuggled across the border to report on a particularly lurid sex-murder case in which a second accused person was yet to be tried. A can also be made by an executive agency such as when President George Bush issued a which forbade federally funded health clinics from giving out information about abortions, a which President Bill Clinton re ...