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California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal has barred Orange County’s Superior Court judges from issuing any more orders on Fullerton’s lawsuit against two resident-bloggers while the appellate court considers the case.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal blocked an Orange County Superior Court judge’s publishing gag leveled against Fullerton residents and bloggers Joshua Ferguson and David Curlee for publishing secret city hall documents. The two residents are appealing the entire City of Fullerton lawsuit against them.
Resident and blogger Joshua Ferguson has been hit with another publishing gag, despite discrepancies in expert declarations on the case stemming from the publication of secret city hall documents last year.
Orange County Superior Court Judge James Crandall will decide if Fullerton’s lawsuit against resident and blogger Joshua Ferguson is an attempt to silence him for publishing secret city hall documents.
Fullerton’s lawsuit against resident and blogger Joshua Ferguson for publishing and allegedly stealing secret city hall documents could be in jeopardy after an expert, testifying on Ferguson’s behalf, said the city misrepresented evidence to the court.
A Fullerton resident, and the blog he writes for, is looking to get a city lawsuit against them thrown out Thursday after the city alleged they stole and published secret city hall documents.
In updated filings, Fullerton City attorneys have now significantly reduced the list of alleged secret city hall documents the city accused resident and blogger Joshua Ferguson of illegally downloading in a lawsuit filed against him and the blog earlier this year.
Fullerton City Councilman Bruce Whitaker is disputing that the City Council took a formal vote in September to sue local blogger Joshua Ferguson, and the blog he contributes to, for publishing secret city hall documents and seeking a publication gag against him and the blog.
Fullerton Resident and blogger Joshua Ferguson gained a national ally in his appeal against an OC Judge’s order barring him and the blog from publishing secret city hall documents after the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press filed a support document on Ferguon’s appeal, calling the publication gag a Constitutional violation and the city accusations a “brazen misuse” of federal or state hacking laws by the City of Fullerton to target routine newsgathering activities.
Joshua Ferguson, is fighting a judge’s decision to bar him and the blog, Friends for Fullerton’s Future, from publishing secret city hall documents.