Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532 (1965), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court overturned the fraud conviction of petitioner Billy Sol Estes, holding that his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights had been violated by the publicity associated with the pretrial hearing, which had been carried live on both television and radio.

News photography was permitted throughout the trial and parts of it were broadcast as well.

It included at least 12 still and television photographers, three microphones on the judge's bench, and several aimed at the jury's box and attorney's table.

When it was time for the trial to be held, it was moved about 500 miles away and the judge had imposed rather severe restrictions on press coverage.

However, the justices did mark the notion that cameras would return to courtrooms eventually: