 Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia

Landmark Communications v. Virginia, 435 U.S. 829 (1978), was a United States Supreme Court case that was argued on January 11, 1978 and decided on May 1, 1978.The court reversed a lower court's conviction of the publisher of Norfolk's "The Virginian-Pilot" for illegal disclosure of confidential proceedings before the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission about a judge's misconduct.