First Amendment

However well-intentioned, legislation to prevent the disclosure of federal judges’ personal information could also impede accountability reporting.

When it came time for Arizona to defend House Bill 2319, no one stepped up to the plate.

Media coalition expresses concerns about Navy’s legal basis for denying public access to court-martial records of Seaman Recruit Ryan Mays

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…