Judge temporarily blocks New York Times from publishing Project Veritas materials

Lawyers for Project Veritas had urged Justice Charles Wood of the Westchester County Supreme Court to intervene after "references to, descriptions of, and verbatim quotations" from memos by its lawyer Benjamin Barr appeared in the Times.

A New York trial judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the New York Times from publishing some materials concerning the conservative activist group Project Veritas, a rare step that the newspaper said violated decades of First Amendment protections for the process.