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Disregarding appeals made by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press on behalf of nearly 50 news media organizations and the Senate Judiciary Committee, the U.S. Supreme Court did not allow live video or audio coverage in the courtroom today, when it announced its historic decision upholding President Obama’s health care overhaul law.

A New Jersey-based transit system has removed photography from its list of “suspicious activities," after receiving a letter from a photojournalist advocacy group.

A photojournalist advocacy group wants a New Jersey-based transit system to reconsider its policy asking riders to report any photography involving trains or stations to authorities as "suspicious activity."

Miami Beach police allegedly confiscated video-recording equipment from at least one member of the public and a TV photojournalist after both witnessed officers shooting and killing a suspect on a public street.

A Maryland judge dismissed charges Monday against a motorcyclist arrested for videotaping his traffic stop with two state troopers and later posting the video on YouTube.

Anthony Graber, 25, was indicted under Maryland’s wiretap law, which requires the consent of both parties to record in a situation where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. Harford County Judge Emory Plitt threw out the indictment on Monday, holding that conversations at a traffic stop are not private, according to court documents.

A 31-year-old Chicago man was sentenced to 300 days in jail on Sept. 8 after he reportedly resisted arrest while videotaping a speaker last year at the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago, in Skokie, Ill.

Cook County Circuit Judge Marguerite Quinn sentenced Gregory Koger after he was convicted in August of misdemeanor criminal trespass, resisting arrest and simple battery at the Cook County Court House in Skokie. Quinn sentenced Koger to 300 days in jail despite a petition signed by 1,000 supporters and 25 submitted statements calling for Koger to receive no jail time.

The U.S. Supreme Court's denial on Wednesday of broadcasters' requests to gain access to audio tapes in a case over a religious controversy means that this will be the first full term in four years that the court has not released expedited audio of arguments in at least one high-profile case, The Associated Press reported.