A satirical news outlet in California, the Benito Beet Beat, won a court order blocking the San Benito County board of supervisors from enforcing a subpoena to
Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi granted the anonymous writers’ motion for a temporary restraining order in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
The judge found the county is likely retaliating against the news outlet over a First Amendment protected political cartoon criticizing the county’s funding cuts for behavioral health clinics.
The news outlet, formed this summer, mostly posts satirical ...