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From the Fall 2001 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 28.

From the Winter 2009 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 29. It may be buried now in the recesses of our collective 2008 presidential election memory, but...

Arlington, Va. -- A new "White Paper" by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press warns of severe risks to the public's right to know in the year since...

Another court has sided with the city of St. Paul in the latest round of lawsuits over public access to the Republican National Convention, finding this week...

U.S. fines fashion magazine for sending models to Cuba 06/14/99 WASHINGTON, D.C.--In mid-April, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control...

Government red tape entangled volunteers creating a radio station for Katrina evacuees. From the Fall 2005 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 10. By...

Appellate court upholds gag on discovery documents05/02/95 INDIANA--Protective orders prohibiting disclosure of discovery materials not submitted at trial do...

A Hungarian journalist at abcug.hu, an online news portal, was denied access to two Hungarian refugee camps. A report by the Hungarian Commissioner for...

Newspapers uncovering sealed cases in Washington and Nevada faced reluctant judges, bureaucratic hurdles and lawsuit threats. From the Spring 2007 issue of The...

Basketball players' parking tickets are not 'education records' 12/14/98 MARYLAND--Parking tickets issued to members of the University of Maryland basketball...

ELEVENTH CIRCUIT--In early June a federal appeals court in Atlanta (11th Cir.) granted a new trial to a man who lost a libel suit against Time magazine.

ARKANSAS--In early October, a federal District Court in Little Rock held that it would release materials from Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against...

From the Fall 2002 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 49.

Postings by an anonymous message board commentator predicting and encouraging the assassination of a presidential candidate do not qualify as true threats...

From the Winter 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 21. The Reporters Committee operates a toll-free hotline for journalists with questions about free...

'McLibel' verdict a mixed bag for McDonalds 06/30/97 ENGLAND--McDonald's Corp. was awarded $98,000 (U.S.) in mid-June in a libel case brought against two...

The Virginia House of Delegates got one step closer to passing legislation that would allow the University of Virginia to keep private the names of donors who...

The Office of Management and Budget released a memorandum on Monday that outlines ways federal agencies can use prizes and competitions to increase compliance...

On July 30, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and five media organizations asked a California appeals court to uphold a superior court ruling...

U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema Tuesday criticized the government's secrecy in the case of a prominent Muslim spiritual leader from Fairfax County who...

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'Thin-skinned' judge loses appeal of libel suit dismissal 06/15/98 NINTH CIRCUIT--A state court judge could not sue ABC for libel based on reports that he used...

CALIFORNIA--A special panel of three federal judges in San Francisco ruled in late September that a provision of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 which...

Newspaper not shielded by neutral report on private figure07/01/96 CALIFORNIA--The neutral reportage privilege, which shields the news media from liability for...

UPDATE: Access to Executions03/11/96 A Marin County Superior Court judge in mid-February refused to issue a preliminary injunction to place the San Francisco...

Publisher sues mayor for throwing away newspapers11/06/95 NEW JERSEY--A weekly newspaper in Elizabeth filed a lawsuit in federal District Court in Newark in...

The Reporters Committee submitted administrative comments to the Department of Labor recommending that it modify its Privacy Act routine uses so that OGIS can...

Patrol officers allowed to talk to media at accident scenes 10/20/97 WYOMING--The Wyoming Highway Patrol in early September adopted a new policy that will...

Judge orders release of testimony from Hiss case 05/31/99 NEW YORK--In a rare ruling, a federal district judge in Manhattan ordered in mid-May that the federal...

Shield law protects author's notes, documents in defamation case 05/17/99 WASHINGTON, D.C.--A District of Columbia trial judge ruled in early May that a book...

Judge denies motion to enjoin broadcast of hospital news story 03/10/97 FLORIDA--In early February, a circuit court judge in Fort Myers denied a hospital's...

Beirut, July 21, 2015--At least four international journalists have been reported missing in northern Syria in two separate incidents in the past month, in the...

OHIO--A former lawyer for Chiquita Brands International who admitted to helping a reporter obtain voice-mail messages illegally from the banana company that...

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., has reaffirmed the need for lawyers representing detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay to have full access to...

Cable operators cannot be forced to block indecent programming07/15/96 WASHINGTON D.C.--Operators of cable systems are permitted to decide whether or not to...

Government officials are working at breakneck speed to halt the pending declassification of millions of historical records scheduled for release next month,...

Police, Portland TV stations agree on helicopter restrictions 04/06/98 OREGON--Portland police and local television stations agreed in mid-March to guidelines...

WASHINGTON, D.C.--In late July, a federal judge dismissed Rep. John Boehner's (R-Ohio) civil lawsuit against Rep. James McDermott (D-Wash) over McDermott's...

Judge rejects request to exclude media from hearing 12/16/96 NEW YORK--In early December, a state trial court judge in Rochester denied a murder defendant's...

A bill seeking to limit public access to a database of citizens with concealed weapons permits died in a Senate committee on Monday.

Legal experts are warning that a Tennessee bill signed into law earlier this month could subject news organizations to criminal prosecutions if they publish...

More and more courts are making oral arguments available on the Web From the Spring 2005 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 31. By Andrew Brenner State...

Courthouse News Service (CNS) has asked the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to grant a motion for summary judgment in a case CNS...

RCFP and the New Jersey Press Association are urging Gov. Phil Murphy to sign into law a bill that would protect journalists from frivolous lawsuits.