Episode 13 – A Federal Court Refused to Silence Us: Inside the First Amendment Win Against Whitpain Township and Why Small-Town Injunctions Keep Failing
Episode overview: What happens when the people sworn to protect you become the story itself? This episode walks through one of the most consequential civic accountability cases in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania — from the September 2024 robbery that launched this project, to the federal civil rights lawsuit (Testa v. Whitpain Township, E.D. Pa. No. 2:25-cv-00521), to the injunction Whitpain Township sought against the reporting on CrookedWhitpain.com — and the federal court that rejected it. The First Amendment does not bend for local officials who find the coverage inconvenient.
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