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10/16/2012
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., arguing that records in Apple v. Samsung smartphone patent dispute be unsealed. The...
10/01/2012
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Executive Director Bruce D. Brown issued the following statement regarding the death of former New York Times Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger on Sept. 29: “Like everyone in the journalism community,...
09/28/2012
Journalists Fred Graham, Brian Lamb and Josh Gerstein, and media lawyer Barbara Wall were honored for their efforts to promote press freedom and government transparency at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press First Amendment Awards...
09/25/2012
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press lauded a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans (5th Cir.) on Tuesday that upheld the criminal sanction provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act in the face of a First Amendment challenge.
09/24/2012
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to uphold a lower court’s ruling giving media, legal and other parties standing to challenge amendments to...