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An attorney live tweeting from the Supreme Court during oral arguments for the healthcare case this week was asked by court officials to stop.

The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a legal group that emphasizes religious freedom, had heavily promoted its plan to present live tweets from the court. The group tweeted on Tuesday that the updates were being posted “remotely” from Arizona, with the information being conveyed through Senior Counsel Casey Mattox, who was present on the scene. But the court's marshal office asked him to stop on Tuesday.

“Apparently, there was some miscommunication with court officials regarding the appropriate location outside the courtroom to transmit electronic communication,” ADF said in a statement. “The ADF attorney [Mattox] complied with the marshal’s directions when asked to stop communicating.”

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