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Website owner Wins Free Speech Case

Was jailed for 3 months.

         

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2:45 pm on Mar 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

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The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday a trial judge overreached his authority when he restricted a man from posting information on a Web site.

Paul Trummel was jailed for more than three months in 2002 in his free-speech standoff with the judge over the Web site he used as a forum for attacking the Council House, a federally subsidized retirement home where he once lived.

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Larry Flynt would be proud.