Court Opinion

ID: 9426538
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:18:14.681688+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:01.567254
License: Public Domain

MR. Justice White,
concurring.
Technically there is no need to go farther than the Court does to dispose of this case, and I join the Court’s opinion. I should add, however, that for the reasons which the Court itself canvasses there is grave doubt in my mind whether orders with respect to the press such as were entered in this case would ever be justifi*571able. It may be the better part of discretion, however, not to announce such a rule in the first case in which the issue has been squarely presented here. Perhaps we should go no further than absolutely necessary until the federal courts, and ourselves, have been exposed to a broader spectrum of cases presenting similar issues. If the recurring result, however, in case after case is to be similar to our judgment today, we should at some point announce a more general rule and avoid the interminable litigation that our failure to do so would necessarily entail.