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From the Fall 1999 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 29.
A split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati (6th Cir.) held in early September that the Kentucky State University vice-president for student affairs did not violate the First Amendment rights of students when she confiscated all copies of a yearbook.
The majority concluded that a public university’s yearbook is a nonpublic forum that is subject to reasonable regulation by university officials.
Court holds that publicity does not create presumption of bias
01/11/99
SIXTH CIRCUIT--In late November, a closely divided federal appeals court in Cincinnati (6th Cir.) affirmed a lower court ruling that a jury in a controversial murder trial was not prejudiced by pretrial publicity.
NLRB loses subpoena fight over 'blind box' advertisement
07/27/98
SIXTH CIRCUIT--In mid-July the federal appeals court in Cincinnati (6th Cir.) held that the National Labor Relations Board could not enforce a subpoena demanding that a newspaper reveal the identity of a blind box advertiser.
Officers have 'fundamental' constitutional right of privacy
04/06/98
SIXTH CIRCUIT--In mid-February, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati (6th Cir.) unanimously ruled that the release of undercover police officers' personnel files under the state Public Records Act violated their right to privacy under the U.S. Constitution.
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