03/05/2001
Freedom of Information Act requesters can claim victory in the only FOI Act case heard by the United States Supreme Court this session. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice David Souter, the Court ruled today that comments from Native American...
02/15/2001
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Student Press Law Center asked the director of the U.S. Secret Service to apologize for interrogating a student who wrote a satirical article for a college newspaper, in which the writer asked...
01/26/2001
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, joined by other journalism groups, submitted comments to the federal judiciary on Friday regarding proposed new rules for public access to electronic federal court records.
The Reporters Committee,...
01/26/2001
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press on Friday applauded a decision by the New Mexico Supreme Court to dissolve a gag order in the controversial child protection proceedings of an obese child.
"The Supreme Court's decision affirms our...
01/25/2001
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press on Thursday applauded a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals (5th Cir.) to unseal the settlement terms of a case against the city of Huntsville, Texas.
The settlement brought an end to a case filed...
