Claim

Claim 757

The Supreme Court held that Florida's law violated the First Amendment insofar as it barred a grand jury witness from disclosing his own testimony after the grand jury's term had ended.

Published 2026-09-26. Last reviewed 2026-09-26. 1 source.

Statement: The Supreme Court held that Florida's law violated the First Amendment insofar as it barred a grand jury witness from disclosing his own testimony after the grand jury's term had ended.
Field: status
Value: Court struck down ban on disclosing past testimony
About: incident 1990-us-butterworth-v-smith-grand-jury-secrecy
Source: Butterworth v. Smith, 494 U.S. 624 (1990)
Publisher: Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
Method: court record
Checked: 2026-09-26
Confidence: high
Status: current
Source date: 1990-03-21

Quotation from the source

We hold that insofar as the Florida law prohibits a grand jury witness from disclosing his own testimony after the term of the grand jury has ended, it violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.