The following week it was reported a gag order had been placed on the band regarding further public statements on the matter.

He would have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his 20-year sentence, and he would have to drop any claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U. S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002.

The gag order was supposedly at the request of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

A gag order was imposed during the trial, prohibiting attorneys on either side from commenting to the press on the evidence, proceedings, or opinions regarding the trial proceedings.

A gag order is an order by a court or government restricting information or comment from being made public.

After the trial's gag order was lifted, jurors made it clear they believed the agents were blatant liars.

Nationwide Title also obtained a gag order against another foreclosure defense lawyer from posting videos of their employees admitting they lied under oath when processing foreclosure documents.

In 2009, Jones was fined for violating a gag order on labor issues.

Commissioner Roger Goodell had issued a gag order for all owners and team executives from discussing any aspect of the pending labor issues.

Jones " crossed the line ", drawing a " six-figure " fine, sources said, as the commissioner distributed a memo to all 32 owners, along with a reminder that the gag order remains in effect.

In April 1994, District Attorney Dillon sought a gag order for all lawyers involved in the case, arguing Kunstler and Kuby had made statements to the media that might be inadmissible during the trial and could influence potential jurors.

" This amounted to a gag order for Kästner throughout the Third Reich.

* August 2005: EPIC and a coalition of open government organizations filed an amicus brief in Gonzales v. Doe, a lawsuit concerning the FBI's authority to issue national security letters without judicial approval and under a permanent gag order that bans the recipient from telling anyone about the demand.

The next year, Kerkorian and Chrysler made a five-year agreement which included a gag order preventing Iacocca from speaking publicly about Chrysler.

Because the jury was sequestered, an attorney gag order would not have been supported by any appellate court, leading to often chaotic scenes outside the courthouse.

After Kurupt's second departure, Against tha Grain was released ; soon after, citing dissatisfaction with serving five years on the label and seeing no release, Crooked I also left Death Row, eventually filing a gag order on Knight to prevent the mogul's interference with his finding a new deal.

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Hentoff vigorously criticized the judicial gag order involved in the Fistgate case.

WBC said that it was thankful for the verdict, but also unsuccessfully sought a mistrial ( based on alleged prejudicial statements made by the judge and violations of the gag order by the plaintiff's attorney ) and also filed an appeal.

In connection with this, Harris received a gag order from a U. S. Attorney in preparation for a federal grand jury investigation.

On 14 December, High Court Justice Anthony Gates dismissed a call from Chaudhry to impose a gag order on Prime Minister Qarase, from making media statements until Chaudhry's lawsuit is heard.

He filed an application in the High Court for a gag order to prevent the Prime Minister from making media statements until his lawsuit was heard, but Justice Anthony Gates dismissed the application on 14 December.

In 1949, Hilda Terry wrote a letter challenging that rule, and after more than six months of debates and votes, three women were finally admitted for membership in 1950 — Terry, Edwina Dumm and gag cartoonist Barbara Shermund.

( Hepburn's shriek was not acting — Peck decided to pull a gag he had once seen Red Skelton do, and did not tell his co-star beforehand.

Another running gag is Fozzie's hat — as a bear, he is naturally covered with fur, all over.

A recurring gag with Philbin as co-host was him challenging seniors — preferably over the age of 100 — at tennis, basketball, ping-pong, and bowling, for example.

Beetle Bailey ( November 21, 2007 ): In this running gag, Sergeant Snorkel hangs from a small tree growing out of a cliff, while Private Bailey is seen trying to help him — and himself

A long-running gag depicted Joey and Chandler occasionally fighting with each other like an old married couple, with Chandler often assuming the wife's role — this eventually ended when Chandler became permanently paired with Monica.

It was frequently referred to by Humphrey Lyttelton, chairman of BBC radio's long-running " antidote to panel games ", I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, during a round of Sound Charades — usually with a gay innuendo-laden gag at the expense of Lionel Blair.

Little touches were added that were iconic to the strip, like the appearance of Dagwood's famous sandwiches — and the running gag of Dagwood colliding with the mailman amid a flurry of letters, ( which preceded the title sequence in almost every film ).

Odd bits of philosophy and a running gag involving ubiquitous signs with strange, incongruous nonsense words and phrases — such as " foo ", " notary sojac ", " scram gravy ain't wavey " and " 1506 nix nix "— were commonly featured in Smokey Stover.

This is part of the running gag of a series of mostly failed attempts to find some sort of alternate means of protection against grues in the event one's light source fails, most famously in Zork II where a can of Frobozz Magic Grue Repellent was included as a red herring — mostly useless, since it would only last for one game turn after one's light source expired, during which the player could not see his location anyway.

In addition to Wood's hundreds of comic book pages, he illustrated for books and magazines while also working in a variety of other areas — advertising ; packaging and product illustrations ; gag cartoons ; record album covers ; posters ; syndicated comic strips ; and trading cards, including work on Topps ' landmark Mars Attacks set.

The gamers that do appear are usually stereotypical D & D nerds ( when Milholland does publish a gag D & D monster, it is in the 3rd edition format ), who cannot function socially — but others do appear who are portrayed more positively.

) The one time Binghamton leads the PT-73 into battle, his only success is sinking an enemy truck on land — with a torpedo ( a gag previously used in the Cary Grant movie Operation Petticoat ).

Fran's Diner was also the setting for a running gag which appeared in every episode, in which Dave, as a customer, would chat with Fran and experience vivid daydreams which invariably spoofed stereotypical male sexual fantasies filled with beautiful women — only to be disappointed that the reality was Fran and her diner.

A macabre running gag — inspired by This is Spinal Tap -- involves their white managers dying under mysterious circumstances ( the group originally insist that they " wasn't in town when the shit happened ").

" Premiere magazine reviewer Tim Bissell complained, " Lucas sent his trilogy ’ s most arresting character Boba Fett to a " death " so inglorious — falling headlong into the vagina dentata of Tatooine ’ s sarlacc — that its only payoff was a burp gag.

According to WikiLeaks, " the Guardian been served with 10 secret gag orders — so-called " super-injunctions "— January and September 2009.

The show's title — and a basic summary of its premise — had previously appeared as a one-time gag in a " Wake of the Week " sketch on CODCO.

* Blow Off — The visual " punchline " of a clown gag or joke.

* Producing Clown — The clown who writes, directs and procures props and costumes for a gag.