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12/20/2000
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press on Wednesday applauded the Maryland judiciary's action Tuesday to abandoned a proposal to restrict electronic access to court records and to impose limitations on public access to records kept at the...
12/19/2000
A friend-of-the-court brief submitted by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in a Freedom of Information case before the Virginia Supreme Court has prompted one of the litigants to oppose the Reporters Committee brief, arguing that the...
12/13/2000
Comments from Native American Tribes to the U.S. Department of the Interior advocating the tribes' rights to water should be available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act, according to a brief filed today in the U.S. Supreme Court by...
11/27/2000
In deciding today to reject C-SPAN's request to televise the oral arguments in Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, the U.S. Supreme Court missed a great opportunity to allow the public to see an important part of the judicial process, the...
11/21/2000
Media organizations should be granted access to documents that had been sealed in litigation against Bridgestone/Firestone, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and other media organizations argued in a friend-of-the-court brief filed...