On 11 December 1951, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Lorain (Ohio) Journal could not legally refuse advertising in order to coerce clients not to advertise on radio. The Elyria, Ohio, radio station WEOL initiated the lawsuit in 1948 when the Journal refused to accept advertising from businesses that used WEOL. The radio station asserted that the Journal had engaged in illegal restraint of trade prohibited by the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. As part of the judgment, the Journal was forced to print the details of the court's decision once a week for twenty-five weeks. Civil libertarians decried the decision, saying that it made the Journal the first U.S. newspaper to be told by a court what to print.