Judge orders New York Times to get rid of Project Veritas memos

A New York judge has upheld an earlier ruling barring the New York Times from publishing or covering documents written by a lawyer for the conservative group Project Veritas, the Times reported.

Why it matters: The ruling, which now also requires the paper to get rid of physical and electronic copies of the documents, is "a highly unusual and astonishingly broad injunction against a news organization," the paper said in a Friday editorial.

The Times said they would immediately seek a stay and file an appeal. The documents in question were "obtained legally in the ordinary course of reporting," Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said in a statement Friday, per the paper.

Project Veritas contended the documents were protected by attorney-client privilege.

Justice Charles Wood of State Supreme Court in Westchester County said the documents were "not fodder for public consideration and consumption."