Lawyers for the city urge a federal appeals court to reinstate Portland’s law, which was struck down last year.

He calls the restriction ‘unlawful,’ the position taken by the Press Herald when it defied the order and published a story with witness testimony.

Its purpose is unclear, but it comes after the Press Herald defied the restriction and media experts criticized it, and with sentencing documents still sealed.

The judge in the case against Anthony Sineni orders the media at the court hearing not to report anything that Sineni or any witnesses say in court.

Andrew Leighton, 48, is sentenced to 27 years in prison for killing Shirley Leighton in 2013.

Abdirahman Huessin Haji-Hassan, 24, is arrested on a warrant charging him with murdering Richard Lobor.