07/25/2011
The public’s First Amendment right of access extends beyond court hearings to encompass at...
07/22/2011
A U.S. District Court in Jacksonville, Fla., has declined to unseal documents sought by ESPN...
07/13/2011
A federal appellate court last week rejected a Texas journalist’s attempt to overturn a gag...
06/27/2011
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in its June 24 decision in U.S. v....
06/22/2011
An Ohio judge presiding over the murder trial of an alleged serial killer on Wednesday reduced the...
06/17/2011
A federal appellate court in New York has rebuffed the efforts of a journalist to unseal a...
06/13/2011
A federal judge in Texas rejected a local journalist's request today to open to the public a...
06/10/2011
Former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake pleaded guilty to a dramatically lower charge...
06/09/2011
A state trial court judge in Alabama has sealed court records in the high-profile capital murder...
06/09/2011
Cameras placed in federal courtrooms as part of a three-year pilot project will be controlled by...
06/06/2011
Banning the media and public from a juror contempt hearing violates the First Amendment-based right...
06/02/2011
A federal judge on Thursday confirmed his decision to allow unclassified, “sensitive”...
05/26/2011
A federal judge on Wednesday modified his previous blanket ban on the disclosure of investigation...
05/18/2011
The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans (5th Cir.) ruled on Tuesday that the public and press have...
05/03/2011
A journalist in Lubbock, Texas, last week asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans (5th Cir...