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Torpy: The First Amendment lives! (even in DeKalb)
By Bill Torpy
Oct 17, 2014Tom Owens, a candidate for the DeKalb County Commission, figured he could dodge a pesky journalist’s questions by getting a protective order against the scribe.
A judge figured the First Amendment said, “When Hades freezes over” to that sort of foolishness.
But before she made her ruling, things in the courtroom got just about as strange as you might imagine.
Read the whole twisted tale, only on MyAJC.com.
About the Author
Bill Torpy continues to contribute columns to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since retiring in 2025. The Chicago native started covering metro Atlanta for the AJC in 1990.
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