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The U.S. Department of Justice issued a subpoena yesterday for the testimony of a New York Times reporter in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA operations officer accused of leaking classified information, highlighting a trend of government attempts to use journalists’ testimony in cases against government employees who reveal government information in exchange for anonymity.
In the final oral argument of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court considered today whether recusal rules interfere with First Amendment rights legislators may have in their legislative votes. Some of the justices' questionsin Nevada Commission on Ethics v.
The First Amendment protects statements in a “60 Minutes” story about the alleged use of a chicken processing company as a cover for terrorism financing in the United States, a federal court ruled earlier this week.
A federal judge ended a lengthy legal battle that centered around a reporter's confidential sources yesterday when he dismissed a former federal prosecutor’s lawsuit against the Department of Justice.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco (9th Cir.) reaffirmed a sweeping protection of speech earlier this week, denying a petition to rehear a case involving a law that makes lying about receiving military honors a crime.
Noting that even the most repugnant speech must be afforded the same protection as any other statement, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press was pleased by today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a church’s First Amendment right to protest near military funerals.
A federal judge in Tennessee sealed court filings last week with little public explanation in a criminal case involving prescription painkillers, the Associated Press reported.
A U.S. district judge in Kansas refused last week to quash a subpoena issued to a human rights group and an author who claimed a First Amendment-based reporter’s privilege in objecting to turning over research notes that included witness accounts of the Rwandan genocide.
The U.S. Court of Appeals sitting in Portland, Oregon, (9th Cir.) struck down two laws Monday that would have prohibited making sexually explicit material accessible to minors, ruling they were overbroad and infringed on First Amendment rights.
