First Amendment

RCFP attorneys helped the LA Times unseal records related to the closed insider-trading investigation. Here’s what they reveal.

RCFP urged prosecutors to drop charges against April Fonseca Ehrlich, who was arrested in 2020 while reporting on law enforcement.

We take a look at a long-running challenge to the National Security Agency’s so-called “Upstream” surveillance.

Can old laws that purport to prohibit political lies survive close contact with the First Amendment?

On behalf of The Erie Reader, the Reporters Committee’s local attorney in Pennsylvania is rejecting a U.S. congressman’s demand that…

The border search question has split federal circuits.

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Date Filed: July 20, 2022 Update: On May 5, 2023, a…

The Tenth Circuit ruled that you have a First Amendment right to record police officers carrying out their public duties.

The department’s new policy restricting freelance journalists from accessing information is unconstitutional. It’s also bad policy.

New York is the latest state to attempt to control how social media platforms moderate content.