Case ID: so2d_634/html/0367-04.html
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Author: {"author": "ORTIQUE, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

A-ACE VIDEO GAMING COMPANY v. STATE of Louisiana Through DPSC.
    No. 94-CC-0302.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Feb. 11, 1994.
   In re Oxley, Mark; Jones, Ronald; — Other(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writs; Parish of East Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court, Div. “D”, No. 402-020; to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, No. CW94 0084.

Granted. The statements in the newspaper article forming the basis for the contempt rule do not carry a threat of clear and present danger to the orderly administration of justice and are of the character which the principles of the First and Fourteenth Amendments protect. Wood v. Georgia, 370 U.S. 375, 82 S.Ct. 1364, 8 L.Ed.2d 569 (1962); Economy Carpets Manufacturers and Distributors, Inc. v. Beter Business Bureau, 330 So.2d 301 (La.1976). Accordingly, the rule for contempt is vacated.

ORTIQUE, J.,

would deny the writ: Application is premature. Relators may reapply to the Court of Appeal in the event of an adverse decision on the rule for contempt.

DENNIS, J., not on panel.