WICHITA | A federal judge on Thursday denied the government's efforts to gag defense attorneys, family and supporters of a Kansas doctor accused of unlawfully prescribing medication.

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SEATTLE -- A pain treatment advocacy group filed suit Wednesday in federal court to challenge the restrictions Washington state officials have put on prescription pain medication.

The nonprofit Pain Relief Network says the guidelines for prescribing narcotics, written by the Washington state Department of Health and published in March 2007, have influenced pain treatment across the country and have made doctors afraid to give opiate prescriptions.

Former 'Gagged' FBI Whistleblower Alleges Pentagon, State Department
Officials Overheard Receiving Payoffs in Exchange for Classified Info;
Crimes Covered Up at Highest Levels of Government

Manalapan, NJ - A Superior Court judge in New Jersey quashed a bogus
subpoena for the identity of an anonymous blogger Friday, protecting
the free speech rights of a critic writing about a local government
controversy.