LOS ANGELES — A Superior Court commissioner denied a request Tuesday by Britney Spears’ divorce attorney to issue a gag order in the pop star’s child-custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline.
Attorney Anne Kiley argued that media coverage was “emotionally and physically” dangerous to Spears. Kiley said the court should prohibit attorneys from discussing the case with the media and not publish dates and times of hearings and dispositions.
Spears, 26, hasn’t been allowed to see her sons since an incident at her home that led to the first of her two hospitalizations in a psychiatric facility and a court decision to put her father in charge of her affairs. The gag-order request was discussed in open court before other issues were taken behind closed doors.
The Associated Press
