Federal judge: Free speech trumps trade secrets

A federal judge weighing free speech rights against a request by Entergy to rein in those rights sided with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Wednesday morning as he denied a temporary restraining order that, if granted, would have barred the newspaper from further publishing documents obtained regarding the utility’s secret relationship with Google. That decision could change as the case now proceeds in the next few days or weeks to the preliminary injunction phase, where the pa