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The Justice Department’s Office of Information Policy issued new guidance Friday further implementing the attorney general’s memo that gives direction…

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston (1st Cir.) has overturned a federal judge's order that a hearing in an illegal…

A Massachusetts court last week dismissed a defamation lawsuit against the Wareham Observer using the state’s anti-SLAPP statute. It appears to…

After years of litigation under the Freedom of Information Act, four secret memos from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal…

The Department of Veterans Affairs finally returned a sound card to WAMU radio reporter David Schultz last week after illegally confiscating it at…

A defamation lawsuit brought by a Louisiana jet fuel supplier against a local newspaper was thrown out by a federal appellate…

A 35-year-old court order barring the state of Tennessee from publicly releasing the arrest records of people suspected, but not charged or convicted,…

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati (6th Circuit) has denied Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter’s petition to suspend…

Texas lawmakers are considering pulling from public records the birth dates of state employees, in a bid to guard against identity theft, the Associated…

A Tennessee judge has refused to order local news outlets to bar public comments on articles related to a murder case…