QOTD

“The Court finds that the term ‘broadcasting’ in Rule 53 includes sending electronic messages from a courtroom that contemporaneously describe the trial proceedings and are instantaneously available for public viewing. Although ‘broadcasting’ is typically associated with the dissemination of information via television or radio, its plain meaning is broader than that. The definition of ‘broadcast’ includes ‘casting or scattering in all directions’ and ‘the act of making widely known.’ Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged) 280 (1993). It cannot be reasonably disputed that ‘twittering,’ as previously described, would result in casting to the general public and thus making widely known the trial proceedings.”

— U.S. District Judge Clay Land bans Twitter from his courtroom