For the past two years, a Nashville attorney hasn't been able to publicly talk about a private prison company he's sued multiple times for civil rights abuses. Now that attorney has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against a federal court district and four federal judges, arguing that gag order violated his own civil rights.
Attorney Daniel Horwitz, represented by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning public interest law firm, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and four district court judges, arguing that the local rule used to gag him violates his First Amendment rights as-applied and is unconstitutional on its face.
