The decision comes after an editorial court ruling ordered his resignation, which raised concerns about media freedom.
Clarksdale, a city in Mississippi, has stopped the lawsuit filed against Clarksdale’s press register. The lawsuit accused the newspaper of being an official who lost his reputation.
The Clarksdale Press Register claimed that neither they nor the media organizations they know have been notified. The editorial questioned the interests of city authorities on the issue.
City officials then filed a lawsuit and filed the newspapers accused them of defamation. It was called the editorial honorary libb, and the article claimed it “chilled and hampered” the city’s efforts to lobby taxes with state lawmakers. Last week, Hinds County Chancery judge Crystal Wise Martin ordered the editor to be defeated.
On Monday, the Clarksdale City Commission attempted to dismiss an honorable lib loss lawsuit against Clarksdale’s press register, and filed a moment of demand after the committee’s committee approved the move.
Martin still has to dismiss her order that the editor would be removed from the paper’s website. She originally had a hearing set up on Thursday.
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“What they did (litigation) (litigation) is still very wrong and has awakened the entire first revision community nationwide. This is very encouraging.”
“We’re really excited to see how all these people gathered around us to protect our rights.”
Clarksdale Mayor Chuck Espy said Emmerich asked the committee to stop the lawsuit due to the offer made to write the clarification. However, Emmerich said the offer was made before the lawsuit was filed and the judge’s order was made, and he was “out of the table.”
Free speech attack
The lawsuit filed by Clarksdale had sought a hearing on a temporary restraining order or interim injunction.
In the order, the judge said, “The injury in this case is a defamation of a public person through actual malicious intent, recklessly ignoring the truth and defending laws that believe it will help local governments during this current legislative cycle. to interfere with legitimate functions.”
After the special meeting concluded, Floyd Ingram, publisher and editor of the Clarksdale Press Register, “come to my office and ask about the subject.”
“I apologise for failing to send him a special meeting notice.
The clerk said he handed out a copy of the notice at the time along with the agenda of the meeting, the solutions passed during the meeting, and local and private laws that were the subject of the resolution.
“Mr. Ingram expressed his gratitude to me and I observed him smiling when he left,” the affidavit said.
The city’s decision to stop litigation comes as many advocates criticized the authorities and accused them of cracking down on freedom of speech.
“In the US, governments cannot decide what opinions are shared in public squares. In a free society, governments do not allow the government to sue newspapers to publish editorials.”
“This is greater than a single newspaper or a verdict. If a judge can erase journalism with a stroke of pen, what’s next? The free press is not a privilege. It’s a right.”
The Associated Press contributed to the report.
