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The federal government asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Monday to become the third court to deny the public access to military court documents in the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning. The government’s argument: the Freedom of Information Act is the proper method to obtain the materials.

A federal court last week rejected a copyright infringement lawsuit against Bloomberg L.P. for its unauthorized publication of a conference call between a corporation's senior executives and a group of securities analysts, finding that the business and financial news publisher was protected from liability by the fair use doctrine.

Transcripts of pretrial hearings in the case of a Virginia man accused of molesting three girls at his daughter’s slumber party were made publicly available by a Virginia state court, reversing an emergency order to seal the records in February.

Judge William T. Newman, Jr. unsealed the records on March 22. He was unavailable for comment and it was not clear why he decided to make them public.

After being sued under the federal Freedom of Information Act, the U.S. Army has agreed to release unredacted copies of court-martial proceeding transcripts to Siobhan Esposito from the murder trial of her husband's alleged killer. The Army had previously cited privacy concerns of the military personnel involved in the trial when it initially redacted the names of witnesses, lawyers and the judge that participated in the court-martial of Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez from the transcripts.

The U.S. Army is being sued in federal district court after denying a military widow access to the court transcripts in the murder trial of her husband's alleged killer, citing privacy concerns of the military personnel involved in the trial. In a complaint filed Jan. 19, Siobhan Esposito requested complete transcripts from the court-martial of Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez.