Sep. 4 at 8:20 PM
$ETR Entergy Arkansas sued the Democrat-Gazette, one of its reporters and the Arkansas Times on Tuesday, seeking to stop the organizations from publishing details of the agreement with Google.
Entergy sought a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction stopping both publications from disclosing details about Entergy’s agreements with Altitude Capital LLC, a front for Google, as the company tries to set up a data center in West Memphis. “In my view, their two requests … makes this action a prior restraint in all but a technical sense,” Rudofsky said at the end of an hour-long hearing. Rudofsky also denied a restraining order request against Jessica Kivell, a Little Rock resident who initially obtained the documents about the agreement through a public records request. Kivell shared the documents with the Democrat-Gazette, including nonpublic and confidential filings that were the results of a public records request. Those documents were disclosed in error, Entergy said.
