12/18/2015
What constitutes a waiver of the reporter’s privilege is largely unchartered territory for courts, leaving journalists with little case law to rely on when determining whether to respond to subpoenas. This week a California federal court shed...
12/03/2015
Determining whether a statement is a fact or opinion can make or break a defamation claim. Recently, two courts — the high court in Massachusetts and a federal district court in Virginia — dismissed defamation suits after ruling the...
11/20/2015
Photographic evidence recently helped a New York trial judge find a New York City police officer guilty of fabricating a record to justify his arrest of a freelance photographer back in 2012. Officer Michael Ackermann arrested New York Times...
10/30/2015
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law an act extending libel retraction and damages provisions to print and online publications. Assembly Bill 998 replaces the term “newspaper” with “daily or weekly news publication.”...
10/29/2015
Open-government advocates warned District of Columbia officials last week that exemption of all police body-worn camera footage showing "assaults" will undermine the very purpose of the program, as will other provisions designed to delay...