Hinds County, Mississippi, Chancery Court Judge Crystal Wise Martin ordered the Clarksdale Press Register to remove an editorial criticizing city council members for holding a meeting on possible ...

Judge Crystal Wise Martin. (AP) By New York Daily News Editorial Board. PUBLISHED: February 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM EST ...

The city filed a petition for a temporary restraining order on Feb. 14, which Hinds County Chancellor Crystal Wise Martin granted Feb. 18 at an ex-parte hearing, meaning no one from the newspaper ...

Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin issued the restraining order against the Clarksdale Press Register on Tuesday in connection with a February 8 editorial titled “Secrecy, Deception Erode Public ...

The judge, Crystal Wise Martin of Hinds County Chancery Court, lifted the order after Clarksdale city officials voted earlier this week to abandon their libel lawsuit against the local paper, ...

FILE - Hinds County Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin listens to arguments during a hearing in Jackson, Miss., Aug. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) 31,136 people played the daily ...

Rogelio V. Solis. FILE - Hinds County Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin listens to lawyer Rob McDuff, an attorney for Parents For Public Schools, during a hearing in Jackson, Miss., Aug. 23, 2022.

Without so much as a hearing, Martin issued a restraining order against the Clarksdale Press Register. She did so in response to complaints by the mayor that a Feb. 8 opinion piece entitled ...

A Mississippi judge ordered a local newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials, the Independent reported. Chancery Court Judge Crystal Wise Martin ordered the Clarksdale Press ...

Hinds County Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin listens to arguments during a hearing in Jackson, Miss., Aug. 23, 2022. Credit: AP/Rogelio V. Solis. By The Associated PressOctober 16, 2024.