The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2012
AP Photo/The Galveston County Daily News, Jennifer Reynolds
Criminal penalties for violations of meetings laws were under fire in Texas on First Amendment grounds.
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2012
AP Photo/Jim Mone
Marshall Tanick, above, represents Dr. David McKee in a suit against McKee’s patient’s son for defamation after critical remarks about the doctor were posted on rating...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2012
“[The] greater problem for many reporters in this era is not getting access to the courts, but having the resources to actually cover them. The meat and potatoes of reporting on what’s...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2012
Cases
Asgeirsson v. Abbott, No. 11-50441, 2012 WL 4352400 (5th Cir. Sept. 25, 2012) 25-26
Cheney v. U.S. Dist. Court, 542 U.S. 367 (2004) ........... 22
Citizens United v. Fed. Elections...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2012
It’s no secret that journalists covering political conventions may get arrested. More than 40 journalists were arrested in Minnesota while covering the Republican National Convention the last...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2012
Journalists armed with pens, paper, cameras and even helmets flocked to Chicago in May to cover the NATO summit, where President Barack Obama met with world leaders.
Among the masses outside...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2012
In 2004, Jack Ryan, a successful investment banker, was the Republican nominee in a close race for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, when two Chicago news media organizations successfully argued for...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2012
In today’s digital age, the content from recent news reports can be instantly distributed across the Internet’s many blogs and news aggregation sites. But, it is often unclear what...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2012
“Take the bridge! Take the bridge!” shouted Occupy Wall Street activists as they descended onto the Brooklyn Bridge one afternoon in early October.
AP Photo by Stephanie Keith
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2012
More than four years ago, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) reporter Marc Perrusquia submitted a federal Freedom of Information Act request for a confidential informant file the FBI claimed did not...
