News Organizations End Scalia Litigation

[Khephra]

JACKSON, Miss. -- The Associated Press and the Hattiesburg American agreed Tuesday to end their litigation against the U.S. Marshals Service over the erasing of recordings of a speech by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The government had conceded in a filing on Sept. 10 that the Marshals Service violated federal law when a deputy marshal ordered reporters to erase their recordings of Scalia's April speech at a Hattiesburg high school.

The Justice Department also said the reporters and their employers are each entitled to $1,000 in damages and reasonable attorneys' fees, as sought by the media organizations.

In settlement documents filed Tuesday in federal court in Jackson, AP and the Hattiesburg American said they would drop the remainder of the suit, which sought an injunction to bar the government from taking similar actions in the future.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-scalia-recording,0,3960266.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[lanparty]

1. Eventually ...

... this will be grounds for Scalia's impeachment!!!!

[struggle4progress]

2. Too bad. We probably really needed the injunction. eom