Can a court order an injunction preventing a newspaper from publishing another derogatory statement about a public figure?

To take a different example, if a newspaper has maliciously published a defamatory statement about a public figure, as determined by a jury after a full and fair trial, some (but not all) courts would permit issuance of an injunction prohibiting the newspaper from again publishing the very same defamatory statement. (See Kramer v. Thompson (3d Cir.1991) 947 F.2d 666, 675-676 [discussing various appellate decisions on this point].) To my knowledge, however, no court has ever so much as suggested that in this situation a court could enjoin the newspaper from publishing other derogatory statements about the same public figure, on the theory that these statements might prove to be defamatory and their prohibition would serve a remedial purpose.

To take another example that the high court has specifically addressed, once a movie theater has shown a film that is obscene, as determined by a jury following a full and fair trial, a trial court may thereafter enjoin the theater from exhibiting that film (Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton (1973) 413 U.S. 49, 54-55, 93 S.Ct. 2628, 37 L.Ed.2d 446), but it may not enjoin the theater from exhibiting other

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