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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Hinds County Chancellor Crystal Wise Martin kicked a political and judicial hornet’s nest in issuing a Feb. 18 temporary restraining order that required a Mississippi newspaper to remove a Feb.

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.